The Stoic Origins of Erasmus' Philosophy of Christ

The Stoic Origins of Erasmus' Philosophy of Christ
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9781487511463
ISBN-13 : 1487511469
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Download or read book The Stoic Origins of Erasmus' Philosophy of Christ written by Ross Dealy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus’ work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known Erasmian texts and presents a detailed discussion of the reception of Stoicism in the Renaissance. In a considered interpretation of Erasmus’ De taedio Iesu, Dealy clearly shows the two-dimensional Stoic elements in Erasmus’ thought from an early time onward. Erasmus’ genuinely philosophical disposition is evidenced in an analysis of his edition of Cicero’s De officiis. Building on stoicism Erasmus shows that Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane was not about the triumph of spirit over flesh but about the simultaneous workings of two opposite but equally essential types of value: on the one side spirit and on the other involuntary and intractable natural instincts.


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