That to study philosophy is to learn to die
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- 138. Folly makes it clear that neoplatonist, and especially Plotinlan, Svstems can serve as a substructure to explain and understand the Christian revelation. Folly's Platonism remains notable however for the reference to prophetic insanity, one of the four Sorts of divine furor discussed by Ficino in his commentary on Plato's Symposium which stimulate the process by which the soul is reunified and, progressively weaned from dependence on matter, reunited to God. The idea that philosophy is a preparation for death is also discussed by Cicero, the source from whom Montaigne took the title of his famous essay Que philosopher, c'est apprendre a mourir. Erasmus in the Enchiridion takes it from Socrates in the Phaedo. The phrase 'possessing as if they did not possess' is a reminiscence St Paul, I Corinthians vii, 29~3o. --Note to My Followers which is Part 3 of Folly Speaks from "The Praise Of Folly"
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