PREMIUM-Ep. 302: Erasmus Praises Foolishness (Part Three)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 29 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Mark, Wes, and eventually Dylan recap The Praise of Folly, getting into Erasmus' ambivalent take on asceticism.
In the full episode, we get seriously personal and cover his sexism and comments on love, the folly of fandom, and the role of humor in philosophy.
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| 0:14.0 | Hey, this is the partially examined life episode 302. |
| 0:21.2 | Part three talking a little more about erasmus's in praise of folly. |
| 0:26.5 | Just me and you, S. |
| 0:27.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.5 | What happened to Don? |
| 0:29.5 | Who knows? |
| 0:31.5 | Maybe he'll show up anytime now. |
| 0:34.4 | But let's push ahead where there are things from the text that you felt like we had not |
| 0:39.3 | yet hit or should we go free for me? |
| 0:41.9 | We can go free for me. |
| 0:42.9 | I mean, I think we hit all the major stuff if we're going to reiterate anything on high |
| 0:47.8 | level. |
| 0:48.8 | It's just looking back at it. |
| 0:49.8 | I took more notes and since our last discussion and thought about it a little bit more |
| 0:54.1 | it. |
| 0:55.1 | The book is structured and how in the beginning the focus is very much on all of folly's advantages |
| 1:01.0 | including maybe irrational stuff, desire and pleasure and self love. |
| 1:06.7 | And then we get into that transition with the two types of madness and then we get all |
| 1:09.8 | of this folly in the pejorative sense, which is odd since the book is in praise of folly. |
| 1:15.3 | So some of that is what he calls the folly of the vulgar crowd self destructive impulsivity |
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