Aron, Raymond. Memórias

Raymond Aron and the Politics of Understanding

Clausewitz: Philosopher of War. Translated by Christine Booker and Norman Stone. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. (CPW) Democracy and Totalitarianism: A Theory of Political Systems. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. (Dem) Les Dernieres Annees du Siecle. Paris: Julliard, 1983. (DA) Eighteen Lectures on Industrial Society. Translated by M. K. Bottomore. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson...

Raymond Aron and the Intellectuals: Arguments Supportive of Libertarianism

“INTELLECTUALS . . . SEEK NEITHER TO understand the world nor to change it, but to denounce it,” so wrote Raymond Aron (1983, p. 158) in a damning critique of those who were very much his intellectual kindred. Such a sentiment may at first seem surprising since Aron was, after all, a Marxist scholar and lifelong socialist who felt comfortable with the social welfare states prevalent in postwar ...

Raymond Hu

Memórias and the Journal Citation Reports

Editorial Memórias and the Journal Citation Reports We, as many other journal editors, have been looking at the recent release of the 2014 Journal Citation Reports by Thompson-Reuters. The results for the Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz have again been gratifying; our two-year impact factor has increased to 1.592 while the Memórias is one of the few Latin American journals with a five-year i...

Nicoleta Maftei Aron Monica (găureanu) Boev

A review regarding the relationships between probiotics and the health is presented. After a brief historical introduction, the main mechanisms and beneficial effects of probiotics, the immune system, probiotics like microorganisms and beneficial effects of probiotics on health are presented. Clinical studies with probiotics are discussed in detail. Many experimental studies have found that pro...