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New book release: The Olavo de Carvalho Reader
Dear Friends, we are thrilled to announce the launch of The Olavo de Carvalho Reader, a far-reaching selection of philosophical essays by the celebrated…
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Knowledge and Presence
If we define “knowledge” as merely the set of data and relationships that a man carries with him and has readily available at a given moment of his…
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The Abolition of Consciousness
What we call a sense of reality is based on the distinction between the actual and the possible. We make this distinction by comparing what we think and…
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Existence and Possibility
In order to read the main parts of Book I of the Summa Contra Gentiles, it is necessary to place ourselves at the level of abstraction and universality…
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The Purpose of Education
All our investigation depends on the notions of truth and falsehood, which are not naive and cannot be presupposed.
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APEIROKALIA
The general understanding of the term ‘higher education’ is that it basically means training for well-paid professions.
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The Metaphysical Foundations of the Literary Genres
Author’s Note to the First Brazilian Edition (1991)
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Philosophy and Self-Awareness
Philosophy, with Socrates, arose as a critical analysis of collective knowledge in the light of the unity, integrity, and self-transparency of…
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Study Before You Speak
The shortest way to destroy democracy is by fostering criminality through culture and subsequently trying to control it by disarming the civil…
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China at Walmart
To find out to what extent Brazilian intelligentsia is in the dark about what goes on in the world, just go to Walmart in any small American town.
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Principles Of A Conservative Policy
These principles are not rules to be followed in practical politics.
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It Was a Disaster
No historian or well-informed reader can conceive the great literature of the first half of the 20th century without the names of G.K.
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