Erasmus and Philosophy. on the Concept of Philosophy Developed by Erasmus of Rotterdam
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Erasmus of Rotterdam is not typically associated with the discipline of philosophy. Yet, he would himself employ the category of philosophia Christi in the sense of authentic Christianity which had not been contaminated by the abstractness and pedanticism of paganized mediaeval scholasticism. Does this reveal a contrarian attitude to philosophy in general or rather a special understanding of what a "true" philosophy as a way of life should be? This study attempts to answer this question by assembling and closely studying from Erasmus' extensive oeuvre his scant and occasional remarks on the concept of philosophy.
Grzegorz Czemiel
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Grzegorz Czemiel, PhD, is assistant professor in literary and cultural studies at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland, as well as a translator of poetry and academic texts.
Michael Chase
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Michae Chase is Adjunct Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, and Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. His books include three in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and his research focuses on Ancient Greek Neoplatonism with increasing interest in its relation to medieval Islamic Philosophy. He has also made accessible the work of the French scholar Pierre Hadot through English translations of his work and expositions of his view of Philosophy as a way of life, which was also the view of much of Greek Philosophy, including the commentary tradition.
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