Olavo de Carvalho

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Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho (born 29 April

1947[1] ), also known as Olavo de Carvalho, is a Brazilian
essayist whose interests include historical philosophy, the
history of revolutionary movements, Kremlinology, the
traditionalist school, comparative religion, psychology,
and philosophical anthropology.[2] He is known in Brazil
for his conservative political stance, and for being a critic
of the political Left.[3][4][5][6][7]

Carvalho rejects Karl Popper's open society for not recognizing any transcendent values and by leaving everything at the mercy of economic conveniences conveniences that are something alleged even to justify the very
demolition of the free market and its replacement by the
welfare state, based upon taxation and debt.[22]
In some works, Olavo de Carvalho attempts a criticism of mechanicism,[23] strongly criticizing Isaac Newton,[24] Galileo[25] and Rene Descartes.[26] He explains
how Newtons First Law contradicts itself when lacking
a traditional metaphysics.[27] According to him, Galileo
and Newtonss science belittled the observation of natural
phenomena in favour of formulating mathematical models with no relation to empirical reality.[28]

Career

He taught political philosophy at the Pontical Catholic

University of Paran, Brazil, from 2001 to 2005.[8] He
moved to the United States, and works as an international correspondent. He writes a weekly column for
the Brazilian newspaper Dirio do Comrcio and teaches
philosophy in an online course to over 2,000 students.[9]
Carvalho has previously written for several other magazines and newspapers, such as Bravo!, Primeira Leitura,
Claudia, O Globo, Folha de S.Paulo, poca and Zero
Hora,[10] and taught philosophy to a smaller circle of students while still living in Brazil. He introduced to Portuguese speaking readers works of important philosophers of the 20th century, such as Eric Voegelin,[11][12]
Xavier Zubiri, Bernard Lonergan, Ren Gunon, and
Frithjof Schuon,[13][14] and can be credited with being
responsible for the rediscovery of Brazilian philosopher
Mrio Ferreira dos Santos in the lusophone world.[15][16]
He has commented on and developed original research
and theories on the works of Aristotle.[17][18]

Carvalho opposes astronomers and scientists in general

who refuse to consider astrology as an object of scientic
study, seeing in this refusal a partisan attitude. There is
a structural correspondence between the position of the
stars in the sky at the time of a persons birth and his
character. This can be veried.[29]

He was the host of the show True Outspeak on

Blogtalkradio, which aired from 2006 to 2013 and had
about 100,000 listeners each week.[20]

Another target of his criticism is Darwinism. Carvalho

wrote: All he [Charles Darwin] did was to venture a
new explanation for that theory [evolutionism] and his
explanation was wrong. No one else, among the selfproclaimed Darwins disciples, believes in 'natural selection'. The theory in vogue, the so-called neo-Darwinism,
proclaims that, instead of a selection mysteriously oriented toward the improvement of the species, all that happened were random changes. [...] 'intelligent design' is
not only the nal touch of the Darwinist theory, but also
its fundamental premise, discreetly spread throughout the
whole argumentative edice of The Origin of Species".
He goes on saying that Darwinism is genocidal by itself,
from its very roots. It did not have to be deformed by
disloyal disciples to become something it was not.[30]

The book The least you have to know to not be an idiot (O

mnimo que voc precisa saber para no ser um idiota) is
a collection of his many articles for magazines published
between 1997 and 2013.

Carvalho accused Georg Cantor of confusing numbers

with their mere symbols in his works about transnite
numbers, and calls his math a play on words[31] and a
false logic.[32]

He founded the website Maskless Media (Mdia Sem Mscara) in 2002. It presents itself as an observatory of the
news media.[19]

Carvalho founded the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government, and Social Thought in 2009, and
serves as its president.[8] He collaborates with Ted Baehr,
Paul Gottfried, Judith Reisman, Alejandro Pea Esclusa
and Stephen Baskerville through the Inter-American Institute. He exposed the marxist elite in Brazil according
to Vladimir Tismaneanu,[21]

3 Works
(1980). A Imagem do Homem na Astrologia. So
Paulo: Jvpiter.
1

3 WORKS
(1983). O Crime da Madre Agnes ou A Confuso entre Espiritualidade e Psiquismo. So Paulo: Speculum.
(1983). Questes de Simbolismo Astrolgico. So
Paulo: Speculum.
(1983). Universalidade e Abstrao e outros Estudos. So Paulo: Speculum.
(1985). Astros e Smbolos. So Paulo: Nova Stella.
(1986). Astrologia e Religio. So Paulo: Nova
Stella.

(1998).
Olavo de Carvalho (Org).
O
Exrcito na Histria do Brasil:
Repblica.
Rio de Janeiro/Salvador:
Biblioteca do
Exrcito/Odebrecht, 1998, 273 p.
(1998). Olavo de Carvalho (Org). O Exrcito
na Histria do Brasil: Reino Unido e Imprio. Rio de Janeiro/Salvador: Biblioteca do
Exrcito/Odebrecht, 1998, 238 p.
(20022006).
Coleo Histria Essencial da
Filosoa, 32 Vol. So Paulo: Realizaes.
(2007). Mundo Real: Cartas de um Terrqueo ao
Planeta Brasil. So Paulo: Dirio do Comrcio.

(1986). Fronteiras da Tradio. So Paulo: Nova

Stella.

(2007). A Dialtica Simblica Ensaios Reunidos.

So Paulo: Realizaes.

(1992). Smbolos e Mitos no Filme O Silncio dos

Inocentes. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais.

(2011). Maquiavel ou A Confuso Demonaca. So

Paulo: Vide Editorial.

(1993). Os Gneros Literrios: Seus Fundamentos

Metafsicos. Rio de Janeiro, IAL & Stella Caymmi.
(1993). O Carter como Forma Pura da Personalidade. Rio de Janeiro, Astroscientia Editora.
(1994). A Nova Era e a Revoluo Cultural: Fritjof
Capra & Antonio Gramsci, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais & Stella Caymmi [So Paulo:
Vide Editorial, 2014].[33]
(1994). Uma Filosoa Aristotlica da Cultura. Rio
de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais.
Aristteles em Nova Perspectiva: Introduo Teoria
dos Quatro Discursos. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks,
1996 [ Realizaes, 2007; Vide Editorial, 2013].
(1995). O Jardim das Aies: de Epicuro Ressurreio de Csar Ensaio sobre o Materialismo e a
Religio Civil. Rio de Janeiro: Diadorim [ Realizaes, 2000].[34]

(2012). A Filosoa e seu Inverso. So Paulo: Vide

Editorial.
(2012). Os EUA e a Nova Ordem Mundial. So
Paulo: Vide Editorial. 2012. (Coauthor Aleksandr
Dugin).
(2013). O Mnimo que Voc Precisa Saber Para No
Ser um Idiota (The least you have to know to not be
an idiot). Felipe Moura Brasil (org.) Rio de Janeiro:
Editora Record.[35][36]
(2013). Apoteose da Vigarice: Cartas de um Terrqueo ao Planeta Brasil. So Paulo: Vide Editorial.
(2013). Vises de Descartes: Entre o Gnio Mau e o
Esprito da Verdade. So Paulo: Vide Editorial.
(2014). O Mundo Como Jamais Funcionou: Cartas de um Terrqueo ao Planeta Brasil II. So Paulo:
Vide Editorial.
(2014). A Frmula para Enlouquecer o Mundo:
Cartas de um Terrqueo ao Planeta Brasil III. So
Paulo: Vide Editorial.

(1994). O Imbecil Coletivo: Atualidades Inculturais

Brasileiras. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade [ 3.1 Works in English translation
Realizaes, 2007].
Otto Maria Carpeaux. In Portuguese Literary &
(1997). O Futuro do Pensamento Brasileiro. EstuCultural Studies. Special Issue, No. 4. Joo Cezarde
dos sobre o Nosso Lugar no Mundo. Rio de Janeiro:
Castro Rocha (org.), University of Massachusetts,
Faculdade da Cidade Editora [ Realizaes, 2007].
Dartmouth, 2000.
(1998). O Imbecil Coletivo II: A Longa Marcha da
Vaca para o Brejo e, Logo Atrs Dela, os Filhos
da PUC, as quais Obras Juntas Formam, para Ensinana dos Pequenos e Escarmento dos Grandes. Rio
de Janeiro: Topbooks [ Realizaes, 2008].
(1998).
Olavo de Carvalho (Org).
O
Exrcito na Histria do Brasil:
Colnia.
Rio de Janeiro/Salvador:
Biblioteca do
Exrcito/Odebrecht, 1998, 260 p.

Sokal, Parodist of Himself. In The Sokal Hoax:

The Sham That Shook The Academy, The Editor of
Lingua Franca (Ed.), University of Nebraska Press,
2000.
Being and Power: The Main Problem of Political
Philosophy. In United Nations Intellectual Leaders
Striving For The Stable Development of Mankind,
New York, United Nations/International Informatization Academy, 2001.

References

[1] Huxley, Aldous. Preface. Admirvel Mundo Novo

(Brave New World). So Paulo: Editora Globo, 2001.
[2] Olavo de Carvalho, The Metaphysical Foundations of the
Literary Genres, Translated by Pedro Sette Cmara.
[3] Olavo de Carvalho, Sociopathy and Revolution, Dirio
do Comrcio, 23 October 2006.
[4] Alex Newman. Olavo de Carvalho on Communism in
Latin America, The New American, 15 March 2010.
[5] Alex Newman, Resurgent Communism in Latin America, The New American, 16 March 2010.
[6] Gabriel Castro, Olavo de Carvalho: Esquerda Ocupou
Vcuo Ps-ditadura, Veja, 3 de Abril de 2011.
[7] Olavo de Carvalho Interviewed on Latin America and
Socialism, The Inter-American Institute, 1 May 2013.
[8] A word from our president. theinteramerican.org. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
[9] Alguns Traos da Mente Revolucionria, Revista Vila
Nova, 5 March 2013.
[10] Dornelles, Beatriz. Mdia, Imprensa e as Novas Tecnologias. Volume 24, Coleo Comunicao. EDIPUCRS,
2002, p. 53. ISBN 978-85-7430-303-1
[11] Kaio Felipe Mendes de Oliveira Santos, O Duelo Filosco entre Settembrini e Naphta em 'A Montanha Mgica', Noctua, No. 3, 2011.
[12] Horcio Lopes Mousinho Neiva, O Dilema da Justia
Natural. A Crtica de Eric Voegelin Dogmatizao do
Direito Natural, Jus Navigandi, Teresina, Ano 16, No.
2804, 6 March 2011.
[13] Darc Costa, Antnio Celso (ed.) Mundo Latino e Mundializao. Fundao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo
Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Mauad Editora
Ltda, 2004, p. 199. ISBN 978-85-7478-129-7
[14] Rezende, Vani T. de. Luzes e Estrelas T. W. Adorno e
a Astrologia. Editora Humanitas, 2006, p. 266. ISBN
978-85-7732-001-1
[15] Olavo de Carvalho, A Filosoa de Mrio Ferreira dos
Santos, Seminrio de Filosoa, July 1997.
[16] Olavo de Carvalho, Mrio Ferreira dos Santos e o Nosso
Futuro, Dicta & Contradicta, June 2009.
[17] Antnio Alves de Carvalho, A Sistematizao dos Discursos em Aristteles, Revista de Magistro de Filosoa,
Ano I, No. 1, 2004.
[18] Joaquim Domingues, Manuel de Gis e a tica Conimbricense, Revista Estudos Filoscos, No. 7. Lisboa,
2011.
[19] PATSCHIKI, Lucas. Os litores de nossa burguesia: Mdia Sem Mscara em atuao partidria (20022011).
Marechal Cndido Rondon: Programa de Ps-Graduao
em Histria UNIOESTE, 2012.

[20] A Brazilian Political Philosopher Tops the Charts at

Blogtalkradio, Blogtalkradio, 18 May 2007.
[21] An Anti-Marxist Revolution in Brazil?
[22] J. R. Nyquist, A Philosophers Warning, Financial
Sense, 18 February 2011.
[23] Olavo de Carvalho, O Homem Relgio, O Globo, 28
July 2001.
[24] Olavo de Carvalho, Sonhando com a Teoria Final,
Dirio do Comrcio, 2 December 2012.
[25] Olavo de Carvalho, The Apex of Human Progress,
Dirio do Comrcio, 4 February 2008.
[26] Olavo de Carvalho, Descartes e a Psicologia da Dvida,
Colquio Descartes, Academia Brasileira de Filosoa. Rio
de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade, 9 May 1996.
[27] Olavo de Carvalho, Nas Origens da Burrice Ocidental,
Jornal do Brasil, 15 June 2006.
[28] Olavo de Carvalho, Razes da Modernidade, 2011.
[29] Interview to Pedro Bial on YouTube, GNT, 1996.
[30] Why I am not a fan of Charles Darwin, Dirio do
Comrcio, 20 February 2009.
[31] " 20. A Divinizao do Espao. (II). O Innito de Nicolau de Cusa. In O Jardim das Aies, Livro IV, Cap.
VII. Realizaes, 2000.
[32] Cristina Poienaru, Deus Acredita em Voc?", Entrevista
Rdio Europa Livre, 21 de outubro de 1998.
[33] A Nova Era e a Revoluo Cultural ndice. Olavodecarvalho.org. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
[34] The Garden of Aictions, Chap. VI, 1617 [Chapter in
English].
[35] Reinaldo Azevedo, O Mnimo que Voc Precisa Saber
Para No Ser um Idiota, Veja Online, 2 August 2013.
[36] Carlos Csar Higa, Livro de Olavo de Carvalho Cura a
Idiotice Humana? No. Fundamental Ler o que Escreve
e Outro Livros, Jornal Opo, October 2013.

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