ETCO launched the book “Culture of Transgressions”
Source: ETCO, 05/03/2008
In August 2007, the Brazilian Institute of Ethics in Competition, in partnership with the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute, promoted a seminar entitled Culture of Transgressions - Lessons from History, in order to answer the following question: is overcoming this culture a condition for development? Although misconduct has spanned centuries, scholars indicate that it is possible to turn that game around. The book is the result of that meeting.
“The lack of ethics that derives from the culture of transgressions threatens Brazilian democracy and damages our economic growth”, says professor André Franco Montoro Filho, the institute's executive president. "It is essential to find ways to overcome this culture". “The book is an excellent reflection on these issues”, he concludes.
About the authors
Bolivar Lamounier - PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (USA). He was the founder and first CEO of the Institute of Economic, Social and Political Studies of São Paulo (Idesp), one of the main socio-political research bodies in Brazil, of which he remains a senior researcher and research director.
He was a member of the Commission for Constitutional Studies (Afonso Arinos Commission), appointed by the Presidency of the Republic in 1985 to prepare a preliminary draft of the Constitution, and coordinator of the program of studies on the constitutional review of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo. He is a member of the Political and Social Orientation Council (Cops) of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp); president of the Board of Directors of the Center for Public Opinion Studies (Cesop) at the University of Campinas; and member of the Consultative Commission on State Reform. He is also the author of numerous political science studies published in Brazil and abroad.
Joaquim Falcão - Lawyer, professor of Constitutional Law and director of the Rio de Janeiro School of Law at Fundação Getulio Vargas. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard University (USA) and a PhD in Education from the University of Geneva.
During the re-democratization, he was a member of the Commission Afonso Arinos and chief of staff of the Ministry of Justice. Former director of the Faculty of Law of PUC-RJ, he has a long history of participation in third sector organizations, including the Pró-Memória Foundation and the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, where, together with Gilberto Freyre, he founded the Political Science Department. As secretary general of the Roberto Marinho Foundation (1988-2000), he directed several projects related to education via media and information technology.
He actively participates in councils of various civil society organizations, such as Viva Rio, Instituto Itaú Cultural, Instituto Hélio Beltrão, Women's Leadership Center, Association of Friends of the National Historical Museum. He is an advisor to the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (Iphan). His publications include Democracy, Law and the Third Sector and In Favor of Democracy, both from 2004, in addition to Scientific Research and Law (1983) and Conflicts of Ownership: Urban Invasions (1984). He is the author of several articles on legal education, constitutional law, judicial reform, democracy and cultural heritage in specialized magazines. He is a contributor to Correio Braziliense, Jornal do Commercio, Folha de S.Paulo and Conjuntura Econômica magazine.
José Murilo de Carvalho - Historian and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2005. Together with the lawyer and professor Celso Lafer, he is the only Brazilian to be a member of this academy and also of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Iuperj for 20 years, he is also a professor of History of Brazil at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
He has several published books, including The School of Mines of Ouro Preto: The Weight of Glory (2002), The Construction of Order: The Imperial Political Elite (1980) and The Bestialized: Rio de Janeiro and the Republic that Wasn't (1987). He also wrote about Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos and about the Viscount of Uruguay, Paulino José Soares de Sousa (1807–1866), leader of the Conservative Party in the 1840s and 1850s.
Roberto DaMatta - Graduated and graduated in History from Universidade Federal Fluminense (1959 and 1962). He specialized in Social Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1960); is a master (Master of Arts) and doctor (Ph.D.) from Harvard University (USA). He was head of the Anthropology Department at the National Museum and coordinator of its Graduate Program in Social Anthropology.
He is professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame (USA), where he held the chair Reverend Edmund Joyce of Anthropology, from 1987 to 2004. He is currently an associate professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal Fluminense University. He carried out ethnological research among the Hawk and Apinajés Indians.
Considered one of the great names in Brazilian social sciences, DaMatta is the author of several reference works in anthropology, sociology and political science, such as Carnivals, Malandros e Heróis, A Casa ea Rua and What Does Brazil, Brazil ?. One of his great influences is the American anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis, a great specialist in the Xavante ethnicity, whom he assisted during his studies at Harvard University, between the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1971, he has lived in the United States.
