Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On Desiderius Erasmus' The Praise of Folly (1509), featuring Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Nathan Gilmour from the Christian Humanist podcast. Does some amount of foolishness enhance life?
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| 0:00.0 | That's the sound of someone making a sale on Shopify. |
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| 0:10.0 | online today. |
| 0:19.2 | You're listening to the partially examined life I've podcasted by some guys where at one |
| 0:22.1 | point said I'm doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. |
| 0:26.1 | Our question for episode 302 is something like, does foolishness enhance life? |
| 0:33.1 | We read the praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus written in 1509. |
| 0:37.7 | For more information, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:41.4 | This is Mark Linson, my iron needing more than one democratist to laugh at my jokes properly |
| 0:45.7 | in medicine, Wisconsin. |
| 0:47.4 | This is Wes Allen, happy in my foolishness and Cambridge Massachusetts. |
| 0:51.8 | This is Dylan Casey, avoiding all sense of propriety that may cloud my judgment in medicine |
| 0:57.0 | Wisconsin. |
| 0:58.1 | In our special guest, in my own eyes, the first of men terrifying the trembling crowd |
| 1:02.6 | with threatening voice and looks. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm Nathan Gilmore, I'm coming to you from Stadham, Georgia. |
| 1:08.4 | Welcome Nathan. |
| 1:09.4 | Hey Nathan. |
| 1:10.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:11.4 | Welcome. |
| 1:12.4 | Folks might remember Nathan from many, many episodes ago when you came on and talked |
| 1:15.5 | about faith with you in another a theologian. |
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