Álvaro Borges Vieira Pinto (11 November 1909 – 11 June 1987) was a Brazilian intellectual, philosopher and translator.
Pinto was born in
Campos dos Goytacazes
Campos dos Goytacazes () is a city located in the northern region of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, with a population of 483,540 inhabitants. It is the largest city in Rio de Janeiro (state) outside of the Greater Rio de Janeiro metropolitan ar ...
in 1909. 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 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.
Pinto died in
Rio de Janeiro
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in 1987.
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
External links
Studies of Álvaro Vieira PintoBibliography
1909 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Brazilian philosophers
People from Campos dos Goytacazes
Philosophers of technology
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