Álvaro Borges Vieira Pinto (11 November 1909 in
Campos dos Goytacazes
Campos dos Goytacazes () is a municipality located in the northern region of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, with a population of 471,737 inhabitants.
Location
Campos dos Goytacazes has an area of 4,032 km2 (1,557 sq mi), which makes it the ...
– 11 June 1987 in
Rio de Janeiro
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) was a Brazilian intellectual, philosopher and translator. He is well known for his nationalism and his defense of the autonomous development of
Brazil
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. His research addressed education, medicine, mathematics, demography, physics, technology and others. The educator
Paulo Freire
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His influential work ''Pedagogy of the Oppressed'' is generally considered one of the foundat ...
called him ''mestre brasileiro'', 'the Brazilian teacher'. His philosophy centered on the concept of 'work', which he understood to be an essential aspect of the human being.
Works
* ''Ideologia e desenvolvimento nacional'' (1956)
* ''Consciência e realidade nacional''
volumes(1960-1961)
* ''A questão da universidade'' (1961)
* ''Por que os ricos não fazem greve?'' (1962)
* ''Ciência e existência: problemas filosóficos da pesquisa científica'' (1969)
* ''El pensamiento crítico en demografia''
spañol(1973)
* ''Sete lições sobre educação de adultos'' (1982)
* ''O conceito de tecnologia''
volumes(2005)
* ''A sociologia dos países subdesenvolvidos'' (2008)
See also
*
Underdevelopment
Underdevelopment, in the context of international development, reflects a broad condition or phenomena defined and critiqued by theorists in fields such as economics, development studies, and postcolonial studies. Used primarily to distinguish sta ...
External links
Studies of Álvaro Vieira PintoBibliography
1909 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Brazilian philosophers
People from Campos dos Goytacazes
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