Agostinho da Silva

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George Agostinho Baptista da Silva

George Agostinho Baptista da Silva (born February 13, 1906 in Porto , † April 3, 1994 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese philosopher and author .

Life

With a scholarship, after his doctoral thesis (1929) in classical philosophy at the University of Porto , he went to Paris in 1931 to the Sorbonne . In 1933 he returned to Portugal, where he became a teacher at the grammar school (Liceu) of Aveiro . He was dismissed from the public service in 1935 after disagreements regarding new personnel regulations of the Estado Novo regime . He was able to obtain a grant from the Portuguese Foreign Ministry and went to the Center de estudios históricos in Madrid . After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 he returned to Portugal.

After being arrested by the secret police PVDE (later PIDE ) in 1943, he went to Latin America in 1944 . After stops in Brazil ( Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo ), he went to Uruguay and Argentina , only to live in Brazil again from 1947. He taught at various universities in Brazil ( Universidade de Paraíba , Universidade Federal Fluminense and others) and was involved in founding the Universidade de Santa Catarina in 1955 . In 1961 he was appointed Foreign Policy Assessor to President Jânio Quadros before helping to found the University of the new capital Brasília in 1962 .

In 1969 he left Brazil and its Estado Novo regime and went back to Portugal, where, with the new head of state Marcelo Caetano, the Estado Novo regime there indicated a political spring. After the lack of significant changes, Silva devoted herself exclusively to writing. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, he accepted a few honorary professorships . With the start of his pension from his Brazilian jobs and with the retrospective recognition of his Portuguese professional years by the new government, Silva saw his financial situation secure and he devoted himself to writing, traveling and appearing on television programs, which increased his fame as a philosopher. In particular, his 13 television interviews in the series Conversas Vadias (“Stray Conversations”, 1990) on the first RTP channel made the convinced vegetarian popular. Above all, he formulated his thoughts on the future age of the Holy Spirit ( Espírito Santo ), which he has continuously developed since then .

On April 3, 1994, he died at the Hospital São Francisco Xavier , the hospital of the municipality of São Francisco Xavier .

reception

He left behind a contradicting philosophical work. The practical philosopher combined pantheism and millenarianism with his unconditional belief in freedom as the most important human characteristic. His notions of a society determined by the Holy Spirit ( Espírito Santo ) and the fundamental freedom of man, formulated in generally understandable language, made him known especially in his later years, due to his television appearances, in which he turned to the most diverse areas of society. He was last seen as one of the most important intellectuals in the country.

As a prolific writer, his work is eclectic. In addition to various philosophical writings, Silva also published poems, essays , works on pedagogy and biographies on such diverse personalities as Fernando Pessoa , Pestalozzi , Robert Baden-Powell , Émile Zola , Louis Pasteur or Leonardo da Vinci , etc. a.

In the 2007 election of the public television broadcaster RTP for the “Greatest Portuguese of All Time” ( Os Grandes Portugueses ), Silva came in 21st place.

An Airbus A321 LR of the Portuguese national airline Tap is named after him,

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agostinhodasilva.pt
  2. ↑ http://www.infopedia.pt/$agostinho-da-silva
  3. ↑ Agostinho da Silva ( Memento from July 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from 7 July 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Porto - Newark: Tap is now flying across the Atlantic with an Airbus A321 LR. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. June 3, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Silva, Agostinho there
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silva, George Agostinho Baptista da (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH postage
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1994
Place of death Lisbon