Desiderius Erasmus was a key figure in the Northern Renaissance. Erasmus was the leader of a northern European humanist coterie and an arbiter of northern European cultural tastes. His intellectual activity had a tremendous effect on the way the public thought.
Erasmus was an excellent Latin prose stylist (some historians claim that he was unequaled since Cicero). He was very witty and knowledgeable, and thus used these two traits to convey his subject with powerful verbal effects and cunning puns. He is very famous for his use of irony. He poked fun at all, including himself. One of his most famous ironic works was Colloquies(1518) in which he looked at contemporary religious practices through a serious, yet ironic perspective. Another work still widely read today, is called The Praise of Folly (1509), in which he made fun of scholastic pedantry as well as the foolish ignorance and credulity of the people. In these works, he let fictional characters do the narration, so his own views could only be found through inference.
On the other hand, Erasmus was also very famous for his "philosophy of Christ". Erasmus believed that society at his time was corrupt and immoral because people had lost sight of the simple teachings of the Gospels. To support this idea, he published prominent treatises, such as the eloquent Handbook of the Christian Knight (1503) and the Complaint of Peace(1517). The former urged people to pursue lives of serene piety and the latter advocated Christian pacifism.
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Desiderius Erasmus wrote In Praise of Folly, his main objective was to reform the catholic church.
The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.
Desiderius Erasmus was a philosopher from Rotterdam, Holland.
Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian.
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It depends what you believe in. Some people believe that god created us and some believe we came from apes or fish. And some people believe god created evolution. Really it depends on what you believe in.
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