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Original Title:	Moriae elogium, id est, Stulticiae laus
ISBN:	0140446087 (ISBN13: 9780140446081)
Edition Language:	English

Praise of Folly

Erasmus

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 12404 Users | 648 Reviews

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Title	:	Praise of Folly
Author	:	Erasmus
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	November 25th 1993 by Penguin Classics (first published 1510)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Classics. Nonfiction. Religion

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"O Elogio da Loucura, a mais popular e viva de todas as suas obras satíricas, é um panfleto risonho contra o que ele tinha como os males da humanidade- a superstição, o fanatismo, a ignorância, a violência do mundo e do poderio, a falsa e grotesca ciência. Escrito no começo do século XVI, é o golpe de misericórdia assestado nas velhas idéias, nos velhos conceitos, no mundo que se desmoronava, abalado pelo vento do Renascimento."

O Elogio da Loucura, começa com um aspecto satírico para depois tomar um aspecto mais sombrio, numa série de orações, já que a loucura aprecia a auto-depreciação, e passa então a uma apreciação satírica dos abusos supersticiosos da doutrina católica e das supostas práticas corruptas da Igreja Católica Romana. O ensaio termina com um testamento claro e por vezes emocionante dos ideais cristãos.

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Even the wise man must play the fool if he wishes to beget a child.A little background, if you please. This was written in the same century as Shakespeare and Cervantes, check. He lived in the Netherlands, check. His father was a Catholic Priest, check. He was an ordained Roman Catholic priest, check. He is considered the point man for the early humanist movement, check. He wrote this in a week while hanging with his friend Thomas More, the Utopia guy, check. He never visited the Czech Republic,

Hilarious and well written.

... Eramus's reflections on human actions, decisions, placed in a bit of a humurous light ...

In Praise of BrexitFolly speaks:About five hundred years ago, a man named Erasmus decided to publish a book praising me. Unbelievably, no one had this idea before, and none since. Nobody has the time or the inclinationnobody besides Erasmus, that isto sing my praises, apparently. All the other gods get their encomiums, but not me.Well, perhaps I should take the neglect as a compliment. After all, isnt it the height of folly not to acknowledge the role that folly plays in human life? So is not

Very witty, but a bit too much to chew sometimes..

Horatian style satire peppered with innumerable references to Greco-Roman lore which would take a lifetime to decipher: luckily for me, ten days into this Sisyphean task I discovered Phils site:http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartb...Aint the internet great? The reason the above site is such a treasure is not simply because it spoonfeeds the laziest reader the needful (a word usage I picked up in Sri Lanka: love it), but because it resolves the numerous dilemmas a rookie like me has whilst

"Life, by God, what theatre is there! What a fuss! And what a variety of lunatics!"Madness and not dementia, says Erasmus, that sweet illusion that runs through us all. The sweet illusion that now jumps all over my eyes. Through the bus window, the fools of the 21st-century parade at a staggering speed, the puddles of ant-men that spread in the early morning like a viscous liquid and scattered throughout the city. They are distinguished only by their costume and certainties: scientists,