Denis Lerrer Rosenfield

Denis Lerrer Rosenfield is a Brazilian writer and columnist. Along with Patrícia Carlos de Andrade, co-founded the Instituto Millenium (as Instituto de Estudos da Realidade Nacional - IERN) in 2005.[3]

Denis Lerrer Rosenfield
Born (1950-11-21) November 21, 1950[1]
Porto Alegre, Brazil
SchoolHegelianism
Objectivism
InstitutionsNational Autonomous University of Mexico
Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Main interests
Political philosophy, democracy, politics, public affairs, politics, ethics[2]

Academic life

Rosenfield has a degree in philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and in 1982 he earned a doctorate in philosophy from Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne).[1] In 1999, he obtained a post-doctorate at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Fontenay/St Cloud).[4]

He is Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.[2]

Controversies

A defender of individual liberties[5] and of the right to private property,[6] Rosenfield has positioned himself against state interference in citizens' lives - even in those cases where the established common good is at stake, like the smoking ban in public places.[7] In an interview to "Veja"'s magazine in 2011, he presents ANVISA (a Brazilian government agency similar to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)) as "the great tutor of the Brazilian citizen, one who knows everything and to whom we owe blind obedience." According to Rosenfield, ANVISA was being run by "schizophrenics" whose sole purpose is to meddle in the lives of the Brazilians.[8]

Rosenfield sees no problem in being called a "rightist", since it means "the defense of personal freedom, of the state and of the property rights."[8]

Selected publications
  • — (2007). Reflexões sobre o direito à propriedade. Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier Editora. p. 207.
  • — (2009). Liberdade de Escolha. Rio de Janeiro: Casa da Palavra Produção Editorial. p. 95.
gollark: I find vanilla kind of boring myself, personally.
gollark: I see. As a mod-liking person, I'd generally prefer 1.12.2 with probably about 30 random tech/magic/utility/whatever else mods, but eh.
gollark: Wait, what mods will this server have? And version?
gollark: I don't know if mine officially supports it or not; it seems like they *kind of* designed it as upgradeable, because there are dedicated RAM/SSD access panels, but said access panels are also really annoying to add/remove.
gollark: It was very cheap, though installing an SSD and more RAM was *annoying*.

References
  1. "Biografia" (in Portuguese). Universidade Falada. Archived from the original on 2013-04-08. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  2. "Denis Lerrer Rosenfield" (in Portuguese). UFRGS. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  3. Carlos Alberto Teixeira (2005-03-16). "Debate sobre a realidade nacional" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  4. "Curriculum Lattes" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  5. Denis Rosenfield (2012-05-13). "Liberdade às avessas" (in Portuguese). Instituto Millenium. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  6. Denis Rosenfield (2010-02-16). "A criação de quilombos" (in Portuguese). Instituto Millenium. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  7. Prof. Dr. Sérgio Luís Boeira. "Resposta ao Denis Rosenfield sobre o tabagismo" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  8. "O estado não pode tudo" (in Portuguese). Veja. 2011-05-06. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
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