Dermeval Aires Jr.

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Helpful votes received on reviews: 100% (2 of 2)
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
In My Own Words:
Greetings and good wishes. I live in Brasilia and survive as a translator of Portuguese, Spanish and English.

Interests
Here is an album of classical music: Bach's Brandenburg Concertos by Yehudi Menuhin

One of popular music: A Little Light Music by Jethro Tull.

One of jazz: A Charlie Brown's Christmas, by the Vince Guaraldi Trio.

And one of Brazilian music: Trampo… Read more
 

Reviews

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Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
--Remarks on Colour-- is the last fruit of one of the greatest intellectuals of the XXth century. It is a book that allows a most clear view of how intuitively brilliant Wittgenstein is; but in more than one sense, it is disappointing. Above all because he writes it largely on the shoulders of Goethe's --Farbenlehre-- and Runge's observations, without dedicating a single comment to him who has been increasingly disclosed as his mentor and master of youth: the unsurpassed creature of insight named Schopenhauer.

As a whole, Wittgenstein's book can be considered a bundle of topic additions and observations to the Farbenlehre. As everything he wrote, it is extremely sharp and… Read more
Hans J. Morgenthau: An Intellectual Biography by Christoph Frei
To read Hans Morgenthau is to meet his sharp and fearless mind seeking `to speak truth to power'. During most of his carrier, his main public cause was to call forth responsibility from North-American policy-makers. His days were the days in which mankind finally found itself face to face with the prospect of the end; here was the setting of a unique era, superior in danger and complexity to all other previous ones; and Morgenthau was one of the few-too-few authors who could see its political problems.

At the end of his life, he wrote the following words: "While I may be best known for my contributions to foreign policy and more particularly to American foreign policy, it is a… Read more