Brazilian philosopher, educator and theologist, known as a pioneer of transcendentalism in Brazil. He wrote more than 100 works, and presented ecumenical lectures on a spiritual approach towards education, philosophy, and science, emphasizing self-knowledge.
Rohden was a major proposer of a cosmo philosophy, which consists of an individual cosmic harmony within a “cosmocracy”: a self-governed individual through universal ethical laws in connection with a collective consciousness of the universe and the flourishing of the divine essence of humans, assuming one has to be responsible for its acts and pursue an intimate reform, with no appeal to an ecclesiastic authority to release the debts of its moral behaviour.
He was a translator of the New Testament, of the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching; he was concerned with editing them with low prices, in order to enable access to these works.
A former Jesuit priest during the beginning of his literary career, he majored in Sciences, Philosophy and Theology at the Innsbruck University (Austria), Valkenburg and Napoles (Italy).
In Brazil he founded the Instituição Cultural e Beneficente Alvorada (1952), taught at the Princeton University, American University (Washington D.C.) and at the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Sao Paulo, Brazil). He delivered lectures in the United States, India and Portugal.
Huberto Rohden died on 7 October 1981 in São Paulo at age 87.
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