Álvaro Vieira Pinto
Álvaro Borges Vieira Pinto (11 November 1909 in Campos dos Goytacazes – 11 June 1987 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian intellectual, philosopher and translator. He is well known for his nationalism and his defense of the autonomous development of Brazil. His research addressed education, medicine, mathematics, demography, and physics. 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.
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- Ideologia e Desenvolvimento Nacional (1956)
- Consciência e Realidade Nacional (1960)
- O Conceito de Tecnologia (2005)
- Por que os ricos não fazem greve?
- A Questão da Universidade
- El pensamiento critico en demografia
- Ciência e Existência (1969)
- Sete Lições sobre Educação de Adultos
- A Sociologia dos Países Subdesenvolvidos (2008)
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- 1909 births
- 1987 deaths
- 20th-century Brazilian philosophers
- People from Campos dos Goytacazes
- Brazilian academic biography stubs