Brazilian religious born in Rio de Janeiro, capital of Brazil, considered the greatest sacred speaker of his time and one of the most important in the language, by efficiency of style and imagination and that was in some way a precursor of the movement as the most listened to philosophical preceptor of its main factors.
Ordained (1807), he was appointed preacher of the Franciscan order and professor of philosophy, eloquence and theology at the college of São Paulo. Blind because of a serious eye disease (1836), he did not remove him from the position of royal preacher. As a teacher, he has, in recent years, rejected scholasticism and Thomism to defend Victor Cousin's eclecticism.
The transition from colony to independence, as far as philosophy is concerned, was made by the work of the valuable friar, who was more of an orator than a thinker. While still alive, he published Obras orratories (1833), a work in four volumes and, after his death in Niterói, Capital of the State of Rio de Janeiro, they were published his philosophical lessons in Compendium of Philosophy (1859), of inferior scientific quality but of important influence on the Brazilian Romantics.
Locke and Condillac's ideas appeared in this book. The philosophy of Condillac, and later that of Victor Cousin as well, lent itself to the eloquence of the friar and, corresponded to the needs of the bourgeoisie in the Restoration, imitated for political convenience, by the aristocracy. Brazilian.
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
Order F - Biography - Brazil School
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/biografia/francisco-jose-carvalho.htm
