Aristóteles — Olavo de Carvalho

Life and works

Year	Event
384 BC	Born in Stagira, a small city of Chalcidice in northern Greece.^{[1] [3]}
367 BC	Moves to Athens and enters Plato's Academy, where he remains for about twenty years as disciple and colleague.^{[1] [3]}
347 BC	On Plato's death, leaves Athens and settles in Assos, in Asia Minor, with the ruler Hermias.^[1]
c. 347–343 BC ≈	In Assos and then on the island of Lesbos, pursues research in marine biology; marries Pythias, Hermias's niece.^[1]
343 BC	Summoned by Philip II to the Macedonian court at Pella, becomes tutor of the king's son, the future Alexander the Great (Britannica records 343 or 342 BC).^{[1] [3]}
335 BC	Returns to Athens and founds his own school, the Lyceum, by the gymnasium dedicated to Apollo Lyceus.^{[1] [3]}
c. 335–323 BC ≈	The Lyceum period: composition and organization of most of the surviving corpus — among others the Organon (logic), the Physics, the Metaphysics, the Nicomachean Ethics, the Politics and the Poetics; the internal dating of the treatises is uncertain and debated by specialists.^{[1] [2]}
323 BC	On Alexander's death and the anti-Macedonian reaction in Athens, withdraws from the city to Chalcis, on the island of Euboea.^{[1] [3]}
322 BC	Dies in Chalcis, Euboea.^{[1] [3]}

How he read him

Reception, not philosophy: each entry records how Olavo de Carvalho characterised this philosopher, attributed and dated to the 2002 course. The project does not adjudicate who is right. The recordings are machine-transcribed and unchecked against audio, so everything here is paraphrase and nothing is quoted.

The whole session insists on the order of the corpus: Aristotle begins as a teacher of rhetoric inside the Academy, and rhetoric already had centuries of tradition behind it from the sophists — whose real discovery, he says, was that two people arguing form a single piece of reasoning between them.

Curso História Essencial da Filosofia, session 04 — Aristotle — 2002 ?
A reception history in one line: Aristotle only began to be understood in the twentieth century, with two or three exceptions. Aquinas's readings are brilliant, but he is not always talking about Aristotle — sometimes he is inventing another philosophy of his own.

Curso História Essencial da Filosofia, session 04 — Aristotle — 2002 ?
On Werner Jaeger's intellectual biography — a brilliant book whose thesis is wrong. Jaeger has Aristotle moving from strict Platonism to modern empiricism; a century of argument concluded no such transition happened. But both poles really are in the corpus, so a reader has to live with the metaphysician and the empiricist at once rather than dissolving the problem.

Curso História Essencial da Filosofia, session 04 — Aristotle — 2002 ?
He mentions an earlier course of his own in Rio, Pensamento e Atualidade de Aristóteles, of which some twelve lectures were nothing but the history of misreadings of Aristotle.

Curso História Essencial da Filosofia, session 04 — Aristotle — 2002 ?

Reception in the COF

Present in 422 of the 589 transcription files of the Curso Online de Filosofia; 189 lectures engage him substantially (5 or more mentions). The most engaged lectures:

This section documents what Olavo said and when — never what the philosopher "really" meant. Characterizations are Olavo’s, tied to a lecture by number and date.

Lecture (aula)	Date	Mentions
37	2009-12-19	73
13	2009-07-04	71
18	2009-08-18	68
167	2012-08-11	68
32	2009-11-14	59
325	—	54
25	2009-09-26	43
27	2010-10-10	43
48	2010-03-06	41
11	2009-06-20	35
326	—	30
310	—	29
14	2009-07-11	28
43	2010-01-30	28
218	2013-08-31	28

A dash in the date column means the transcription file carries no verified date — an undated file, not an undated lecture. Counts are accent-insensitive, word-boundary matches over the public community transcription corpus.^{[4] [5]}

References

Aristotle — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Aristotle (384 B.C.E.—322 B.C.E.) — Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Aristotle — Encyclopaedia Britannica
COF — community transcriptions of the Curso Online de Filosofia (585 lectures) — Community transcription repository (upstream declares CC0 for the transcription work; the lectures remain the estate's)
COF em Áudio — lecture audio collection — Internet Archive (community upload)