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Against War
Desiderius Erasmus
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The Adagia, that vast work which was, at least to his own generation, Erasmus’s foremost title to fame, has long ago passed into the rank of those monuments of literature “dont la reputation s’affermira toujours parcequ’on ne les lit guère.” So[Pg xxi] far as Erasmus is more than a name for most modern readers, it is on slighter and more popular works that any direct knowledge of him is grounded on the Colloquies, which only ceased to be a schoolbook within living memory, on the Praise of Folly, and on selections from the enormous masses of his letters. An Oxford scholar of the last generation, whose profound knowledge of humanistic literature was accompanied by a gift of terse a. . . Read More
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Kitap türkler üzerine yazılmış gibii :) kesinlikle okunması gerekiyor sadece savaş değil deliliğe övgü deki gibi bir çok toplum kesimi eleştirilmiştir.
A compelling and stinging rebuke of the ridiculous and self destructive nature of waging war.
Erasmus might be the closest I ever come to time travelling. 507 years ago seems an inconceivable amount of time, such that the events of that era may as well have occurred on another planet populated by a people whos thoughts were completely removed from our anything we know here in the present. Of
"(but, O good Lord, what may we say happeneth well and luckily in war?)"
Başlarda çok güzeldi, sonrasında din için yapılan savaşlar hakkında konuyu çok uzatması sıkıcı oldu.
Loved it! Considering this book is 500 years old, it is still so pertinent. The archaisms are delightful and the arguments strong - strong enough to remain pertinent.
Reading through, I couldn't help but pick up on the seeds of proto-Reformation and humanism. I recommend this book for its unique loo