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The Wisdom of Folly

The starting point of this philosophical approach to wisdom is Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians, more precisely, the inversion of the meaning of the terms “wisdom” and “foolishness”. The aim of the paper is to show how wisdom (understood in the genuine sense) can use the form of folly as a “practical and shocking” mode of action in criticizing the society’s mainstream spiritual pathology (inversion of values). The ways of the court jester and the type and structure of Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly seem to provide a good example for those who attempt to think against the mainstream today.

Philosophy and wisdom, folly Desiderius Erasmus, court jester, Theophylact of Ohrid

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