⚠️Important notice ⚠️
Salutations, good scholars and adventurous international voyagers of the Nous Study Circle!
Gather round, my friends. If you’ve been trying to dive into our materials and found yourself staring at Portuguese text like it’s ancient hieroglyphs after three espressos… we see you. And we’re here to save the day, eventually, with style.
Today we officially begin the Great English Translation Crusade. Yes, we’re translating a good chunk of our fifty-plus tough, brain-bending titles into proper English. The kind that doesn’t sound like it was run through a drowsy robot at 3am. Because let’s be honest some of these texts are so dense they deserve better than Google Translate doing its best “confused tourist” impression.
Here’s the thing, we are going old school. Real live people. No AI shortcuts. That means it’s going to take a little time (patience, young Padawan), but it also means the translations will be actually good faithful to the original depth, rigour and soul of the work.
Starting today, you’ll start to see that shiny new “English” button pop up as we roll out the translated pieces. We’ll keep updating the site as they become ready, so bookmark us and check back like it’s your favourite netflix series that drops episodes whenever the muse (and our translators) are feeling inspired.
We’re doing this because we really do care that you our English speaking friends around the world can enjoy the material without having to have a Portuguese dictionary and a prayer. You get the real deal, not some awkward machine version that mangles the nuance.
So be strong, be faithful, and get ready. The Circle is getting bigger and we’re opening the door as wide as we can get it for everyone who wants to come in.
Welcome to the English side folks. We are coming for you slow, careful, and with maximum intellectual swagger.
Catch you in the texts.
— The Nous Group
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To appreciate critical knowledge and cultivate a space where academic and cultural ideas intersect in a serious yet accessible way. To summarize The Nous Study Circle in a single sentence: A Christian Solarpunk manifesto, a modern Chestertonian dream for a possible future.
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The much-desired evolution of humankind will only occur when we achieve inner peace. At the Nous Study Circle, we believe that the only way to progress is to delve deeper. For it is only when we truly immerse ourselves in genuine research, profound philosophy, and books that make us reflect, that we can reach the stars that lie in the depths of the sea. Through the essays and research on our website, we manage to drown out the noise of the outside world, allowing us to hear the name that silence has always known: something that lies beyond it.
It is through this intellectual and spiritual examination that the soul truly comes to know what the heart already knew without having the right to: that life is an undeserved gift. In light of the suggested videos, readings, and reflections we have already offered, we recall that hope in creation is the root of all virtue and that love is the only force capable of transforming our fall into flight—a faithful mirror of God's love for humanity. At the summit of reason (Nous) and through our bookstore, with each page, each video, man is led to that point where God dwells, in the depths of the soul.
Writing for the Nous Study Circle is, for me, a rare honor and a true exercise in intellectual freedom. I am grateful to Gabriel G. Oliveira for opening this space, because his research courageously confronts themes that academia today often treats superficially or merely repeating consensus. Publishing my own ideas here, in dialogue with this broader and more rigorous horizon, is to contribute to the formation of an online collection capable of serving all those who seek knowledge with seriousness, depth, and a spirit of truth.
Janice S. Godoi
