Desiderius Erasmus

1466 - 1536

Titles on this disk:

• author: The Colloquies vol. 1
• author: The Colloquies vol. 2
• author: The Complaint of Peace
• author: In Praise of Folly
• author: The Manual of a Christian Knight
• author: The Works of Vicesimus Knox, vol. 5 (Personal Nobility, Spirit of Despotism, Antipolemus)

Quotations:

• (23 May, 2005) Erasmus has the personification of Peace come down to earth to see with dismay how war ravages human societies (1521)
• (22 November, 2004) Erasmus argues that Philosophizing is all very well but there is also a need for there to be a Philosopher of the Kitchen (1518)

About this person:

Desiderius Erasmus was a Christian, humanist scholar; the first editor of the New Testament; a classicist; and a leading voice in the theological debates of the early Reformation in northern Europe. He contended with the reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546), emphasizing the importance of free will in human actions against Luther’s belief in the absolute bondage of the will to sin.