Praise_Of_Folly

Praise Of Folly The Praise of Folly Before we talk about Desiderius Erasmus and his writing The Praise of Folly, it must be discussed on how the Renaissance came into play and affected the various people including Erasmus. The Renaissance was basically a blending of Classical themes with Christian themes. Erasmus and many others at the time such as Sir Thomas Moore were humanists. Humanists at the time were the drive of the Renaissance. They believed in the realism of an individual and the natural capacities of the self. There were many different kinds of Humanists such as French Humanists, Spanish, and English and Northern European Humanists which Erasmus was a part of. Most dealt with religion and the Christian faith. This new time with a mixed way to look the world, people were able to express how they felt about certain aspects of the political, economical, and social order for the time. Such people as Erasmus made the humanism movement wide-spread and not just a local movement but into an international way of thinking. Erasmus and his colleges challenged the very ideas of the Christian hierarchy to the secular princes and rulers of erasmus, folly, church, time, about, people, way, one, life, humanists, reform, moral, praise, part, old, look, humanist, themselves, should, princes, new, must, hierarchy, basically, women, renaissance, religion, political, pleasure, out, leaders, implicit, goes, catholic, because