PhilosophersÉrasme de Rotterdam
Érasme de Rotterdam
In Praise of Folly: learning against fanaticism.
Humanismv. 1466 – 1536 NetherlandsChristian humanistPhilologist (editor of the Greek New Testament)SatiristThinker of peace
Inspirations
Platon the philosopher-king, the cave
Cicéron the model of Latin and civic wisdom
Augustin grace, which Luther and he read differently
Lorenzo Vallaphilological criticism of texts
Heirs
Thomas Morethe friend, Utopia (1516)
Martin LutherThe Bondage of the Will (1525)
criticMontaignecareful doubt, the essay
Voltaire satire against fanaticism
Rabelaishis 1532 letter to Erasmus, his "father"
Similar and opposite philosophers
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Boèce God sees everything in an eternal present: knowing what we will do does not force us to do it.
100 %Joseph Butler English bishop and moralist: happiness comes from satisfying particular affections, not from the self-love that aims at it.
100 %Hugo Grotius Dutch jurist and thinker who grounds natural law in the sociable, rational nature of man, valid even without appeal to God.
100 %Martin Luther King Jr. Minister and leader of the civil rights movement: he defends nonviolent disobedience to unjust laws, openly and accepting the penalty.
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