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He is the host of the popular weekly show ''True Outspeak'' on [[Blogtalkradio]], with a weekly audience of about 100,000, which aired from 2006 to 2013.<ref>[http://blog.blogtalkradio.com/host-highlight/a-brazilian-political-philosopher-tops-the-charts-at-blogtalkradio/ "A Brazilian Political Philosopher Tops the Charts at Blogtalkradio,"] ''Blogtalkradio,'' 18 May 2007.</ref>
He is the host of the popular weekly show ''True Outspeak'' on [[Blogtalkradio]], with a weekly audience of about 100,000, which aired from 2006 to 2013.<ref>[http://blog.blogtalkradio.com/host-highlight/a-brazilian-political-philosopher-tops-the-charts-at-blogtalkradio/ "A Brazilian Political Philosopher Tops the Charts at Blogtalkradio,"] ''Blogtalkradio,'' 18 May 2007.</ref>


This book ''The least you have to know to not be an idiot'' (''O mínimo que você precisa saber para não ser um idiota'') is a collection of his many articles for magazines published between 1997 and 2013.
The book ''The least you have to know to not be an idiot'' (''O mínimo que você precisa saber para não ser um idiota'') is a collection of his many articles for magazines published between 1997 and 2013.


In 2009, Carvalho was the founding President of the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government, and Social Thought.<ref>{{cite web|title=A word from our president|url=http://theinteramerican.org/welcome-to-the-inter-american-institute/|website=theinteramerican.org|accessdate=26 February 2015}}</ref>
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In 2009, Carvalho was the founding President of the ''Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government, and Social Thought''.<ref>[http://www.theinteramerican.org/about-us/mission-statement/128.html "A Word from our President,"] ''The Inter-American Institute'', 4 June 2010.</ref> According to this institute's website, the keynote of his work is the defense of man's innermost consciousness against the tyranny of collective authority, and he believes that the most solid shelter for individual consciousness against alienation and reification can be found in widely varying degrees in the ancient spiritual traditions.


==Ideas==
==Ideas==

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Olavo de Carvalho
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Olavo de Carvalho
Personal
Born29 April 1947
Campinas, Brazil
Creed
Main interest(s)
Notable idea(s)The revolutionary mind, cognitive parallaxe
Senior posting
Influenced by
AwardsMedalha do Pacificador (1999), Commander of Romania's National Order of Merit (2000), Medalha Mérito Santos-Dumont (2001), Medalha Tiradentes (2011)
Websiteolavodecarvalho.org

Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho (born 29 April 1947[1]), also known as Olavo de Carvalho, is a Brazilian astrologer and essayist whose interests include historical philosophy, astrology,[2] the history of revolutionary movements, specialist in Kremlinology, the traditionalist school, comparative religion, psychology and philosophical anthropology.[3] He is also well known in Brazil for his conservative political stances, and for being a vehement critic of the political Left.[4][5][6][7][8] Olavo de Carvalho worked as a journalist until September 1977, when his wife, Roxane, was arrested for participating in a public act of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, and interrogated. Roxane was a member of the Liberdade e Luta, a trotskyist organization.

In 1986 Olavo de Carvalho was a member of the Tariqah of brothers Omar Ali-Shah and Idries Shah.[9][10] Olavo de Carvalho had been initiated in the Tariqah of Frithjof Schuon, the centre of many scandals that were never investigated to the end, and also to a Muslim centre in Brasilia, financed by the Saudi Arabi government, the very same government that gave him a prize for a book on Islam, a fact he proudly shows as proof of his intellectual stance. Olavo de Carvalho had a Muslim name, Sidi Muhammad, a proof of conversion.[11][12]

Tales de Carvalho, Olavo's son, has been identified as a Muslim convert, also known as Sidi Muhammad Issa, a faqir alawi, muqaddam of Ba 'Alawiyya in Brazil.[13]

In September 2002, Constantine Menges sent a letter to Olavo de Carvalho in which he agreed with the Brazilian philosopher’s analysis of the current political situation in Brazil.[14]

Alan Keyes, Olavo de Carvalho and Alejandro Peña Esclusa, president of UnoAmerica, met in 3 March 2009 in Washington D.C. for an informal and friendly talk. In July 2010, Olavo de Carvalho denounced a plot against Alejandro Peña Esclusa, and was arrested on terrorism-related charges.[15] According to the website of the Venezuelan Ministry of Communications & Information, Alejandro Peña Esclusa was the head of a plan to murder Pope John Paul II during a visit to Venezuela in 13 November 1984.

Career overview

Now living in the United States, in the state of Virginia, after having taught political philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil, from 2001 to 2005, Olavo de Carvalho is an international correspondent and writes a weekly column for the Brazilian newspaper Diário do Comércio. He teaches philosophy on an online course to over 2000 students.[16] Carvalho has previously written for several other magazines and newspapers, such as Bravo!, Primeira Leitura, Claudia, O Globo, Folha de São Paulo, Época and Zero Hora,[17] and taught philosophy to a smaller circle of students, while still living in Brazil. He also introduced to Portuguese speaking readers works of important philosophers of the 20th century, such as Eric Voegelin,[18][19] Xavier Zubiri, Bernard Lonergan, René Guénon, and Frithjof Schuon,[20][21] and can be credited with being responsible for the rediscovery of Brazilian philosopher Mário Ferreira dos Santos in the lusophone world.[22][23] He has commented and developed original researches and theories on the works of Aristotle.[24][25]

The website Maskless Media (Mídia Sem Máscara) was founded in the year of 2002 presenting itself as an observatory of the news media, under the responsibility of the main organizer Olavo de Carvalho.[26]

He is the host of the popular weekly show True Outspeak on Blogtalkradio, with a weekly audience of about 100,000, which aired from 2006 to 2013.[27]

The book The least you have to know to not be an idiot (O mínimo que você precisa saber para não ser um idiota) is a collection of his many articles for magazines published between 1997 and 2013.

In 2009, Carvalho was the founding President of the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government, and Social Thought.[28]

Ideas

Olavo de Carvalho is mostly known for his theory of the revolutionary mind.[29][30] He sees a characteristic of the revolutionary mind in the inversion of the perception of time. He says normal individuals, based on common sense, view the past as something immutable and the future as something that can be changed (it is contingent, as Carvalho puts it). However, the leftist revolutionary sees the utopian future as a goal that eventually will be reached no matter what and the past as something that can be changed, through reinterpretation, to accommodate it.[31]

Carvalho points out that because the revolutionary believes implicitly in a future utopia where there will be no evil, this same revolutionary believes that no holds should be barred in achieving that utopia. Thus, his own criminal activities in achieving that goal are above reproach.[31]

However Carvalho believes that by the definition of revolution, the American Revolution was not a revolution at all because, for him, the Founding Fathers were men who held themselves (not just others) to high moral standards and in no way tried to usher in a novel experimental utopian system by centralization of power, basing their actions and policies on older English traditions and common law, and modeling the new Republic on these tried and true common sense precepts.[31]

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." Carvalho believes that the free market does not make men good by itself, nor does it train them to be moral. Alone, it does not bother to defend itself against socialism. According to him, Christian values protect the free market system, not the other way around.[32]

He collaborates with Ted Baehr, Paul Gottfried, Judith Reisman, Alejandro Peña Esclusa and Stephen Baskerville through the Inter-American Institute.

Science

In some works, Olavo de Carvalho attempts a criticism of mechanicism,[33] strongly criticizing Isaac Newton,[34] Galileo[35] and Rene Descartes.[36] Using the Inertia Law as example, he explains how a heedless adherence to it leads to inherent contradictions when lacking a traditional metaphysics.[37] Moreover, according to him, "Galileo and Newtons's science belittled the observation of natural phenomena in favour of formulating mathematical models with no relation to empirical reality".[38]

Carvalho also opposes to astronomers and scientists in general who refuse the possibility of the correspondences seen in astrology becoming an object of scientific 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 person's birth and his character. This can be verified".[39]

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 self-proclaimed Darwin's 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 final touch of the Darwinist theory, but also its fundamental premise, discreetly spread throughout the whole argumentative edifice 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".[40]

Carvalho accused Georg Cantor of confusing "numbers with their mere symbols" in his works about transfinite numbers, and calls his math a "play on words"[41] and a "false logic".[42]

References

  1. ^ Huxley, Aldous. "Preface". Admirável Mundo Novo (Brave New World). São Paulo: Editora Globo, 2001.
  2. ^ Vani Terezinha de Rezende, "Astrologia e a Noção de Destino: Outra Forma de Racionalidade," Revista Omnia Lumina, Vol. I, No. 2, 2010.
  3. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "The Metaphysical Foundations of the Literary Genres," Translated by Pedro Sette Câmara.
  4. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "Sociopathy and Revolution," Diário do Comércio, 23 October 2006.
  5. ^ Alex Newman. "Olavo de Carvalho on Communism in Latin America," The New American, 15 March 2010.
  6. ^ Alex Newman, "Resurgent Communism in Latin America," The New American, 16 March 2010.
  7. ^ Gabriel Castro, "Olavo de Carvalho: Esquerda Ocupou Vácuo Pós-ditadura," Veja, 3 de Abril de 2011.
  8. ^ "Olavo de Carvalho Interviewed on Latin America and Socialism," The Inter-American Institute, 1 May 2013.
  9. ^ O Estado de S. Paulo, 10 de janeiro de 1986
  10. ^ Folha de S. Paulo, 11 de janeiro de 1986
  11. ^ Exposing a Brazilian Agent Provocateur Geopolitica.ru, 3 April 2014.
  12. ^ [1]
  13. ^ SILVA FILHO, Mário Alves da. A Mística Islâmica em Terræ Brasilis: o Sufismo e as Ordens Sufis em São Paulo. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências da Religião). São Paulo: PUC/SP, 2012.
  14. ^ Constantine C. Menges’ Letter to Olavo de Carvalho. 19 September 2002.
  15. ^ Urgent appeal - Olavo de Carvalho UnoAmerica, 15 July 2010.
  16. ^ "Alguns Traços da Mente Revolucionária," Revista Vila Nova, 5 March 2013.
  17. ^ Dornelles, Beatriz. Mídia, Imprensa e as Novas Tecnologias. Volume 24, Coleção Comunicação. EDIPUCRS, 2002, p. 53. ISBN 978-85-7430-303-1
  18. ^ Kaio Felipe Mendes de Oliveira Santos, "O Duelo Filosófico entre Settembrini e Naphta em 'A Montanha Mágica'," Noctua, No. 3, 2011.
  19. ^ Horácio Lopes Mousinho Neiva, "O Dilema da Justiça Natural. A Crítica de Eric Voegelin à Dogmatização do Direito Natural," Jus Navigandi, Teresina, Ano 16, No. 2804, 6 March 2011.
  20. ^ Darc Costa, Antônio Celso (ed.) Mundo Latino e Mundialização. Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Mauad Editora Ltda, 2004, p. 199. ISBN 978-85-7478-129-7
  21. ^ Rezende, Vani T. de. Luzes e Estrelas – T. W. Adorno e a Astrologia. Editora Humanitas, 2006, p. 266. ISBN 978-85-7732-001-1
  22. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "A Filosofia de Mário Ferreira dos Santos," Seminário de Filosofia, July 1997.
  23. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "Mário Ferreira dos Santos e o Nosso Futuro," Dicta & Contradicta, June 2009.
  24. ^ Antônio Alves de Carvalho, "A Sistematização dos Discursos em Aristóteles," Revista de Magistro de Filosofia, Ano I, No. 1, 2004.
  25. ^ Joaquim Domingues, "Manuel de Góis e a Ética Conimbricense," Revista Estudos Filosóficos, No. 7. Lisboa, 2011.
  26. ^ PATSCHIKI, Lucas. Os litores de nossa burguesia: Mídia Sem Máscara em atuação partidária (2002-2011). Marechal Cândido Rondon: Programa de Pós-Graduação em História UNIOESTE, 2012.
  27. ^ "A Brazilian Political Philosopher Tops the Charts at Blogtalkradio," Blogtalkradio, 18 May 2007.
  28. ^ "A word from our president". theinteramerican.org. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  29. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "The Revolutionary Mentality," Diario do Comercio, 13 August 2007.
  30. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "More on the Revolutionary Mentality," The Inter-American Institute, 29 August 2010.
  31. ^ a b c "Olavo de Carvalho on the Revolutionary Mind". Laigles Forum. 28 August 2008. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  32. ^ J. R. Nyquist, "A Philosopher’s Warning," Financial Sense, 18 February 2011.
  33. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "O Homem Relógio", O Globo, 28 July 2001.
  34. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "Sonhando com a Teoria Final," Diário do Comércio, 2 December 2012.
  35. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "The Apex of Human Progress," Diário do Comércio, 4 February 2008.
  36. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "Descartes e a Psicologia da Dúvida," Colóquio Descartes, Academia Brasileira de Filosofia. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade, 9 May 1996.
  37. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "Nas Origens da Burrice Ocidental," Jornal do Brasil, 15 June 2006.
  38. ^ Olavo de Carvalho, "Raízes da Modernidade," 2011.
  39. ^ Interview to Pedro Bial on YouTube, GNT, 1996.
  40. ^ "Why I am not a fan of Charles Darwin", Diário do Comércio, 20 February 2009.
  41. ^ "§ 20. A Divinização do Espaço. (II). O Infinito de Nicolau de Cusa." In O Jardim das Aflições, Livro IV, Cap. VII. É Realizações, 2000.
  42. ^ Cristina Poienaru, "Deus Acredita em Você?", Entrevista à Rádio Europa Livre, 21 de outubro de 1998.

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