Morology
The word morology ( ancient Greek μωρολογία morología , composed of μωρία moría 'folly' and λόγος lógos ' word ',' speech ',' doctrine ') is handed down in Ephesians (5,4) and is mostly used there with' nonsense 'or' silly Chatter 'translated.
Otherwise, it can be considered a joke word that best translates as 'science of stupidity' or 'doctrine of stupidity'.
The two different translation options result from the versatility of the Greek word λόγος, which can mean both the individual spoken, written or thought word as well as the entire thought structure, which is only possible through language, i.e. the teaching or science of something. In Latin the early modern period is morologia sometimes as Gräzismus needed for a silly speech 'or teaching.
Moriae encomium , in German: Praise of Folly (or Praise of Foolishness ) - a satire by the Dutch humanist Erasmus von Rotterdam - is probably the best known treatise that deals with the phenomenon of stupidity. Erasmus wrote his work in 1509 during a stay with his friend Thomas More in England. Years earlier, in 1506, Erasmus had already adapted texts by the Hellenistic satirist Lukian of Samosata (120–180) (who was later also called the Voltaire of antiquity) and published them - together with Thomas More - as the Luciani opuscula collection of works .
The praise of folly, written in Latin as an ironic discourse, was first printed by Jehan Petit and Gilles de Gourmont in Paris in 1511, and shortly afterwards in August 1511 by Matthias Schürer in Strasbourg. It was published in a new edition in 1515 by Johann Froben in Basel and with 83 hand drawings by the painter Hans Holbein the Elder. J. illustrated. It became one of the most widely read books in world literature. Erasmus dedicated the work to his friend Thomas More.
Also known is the later Confutatio morologiae Gilberti Primerossi ('Refutation of the Morology of Gilbert Primrose') written in 1614 by the lawyer Jean Malvin against the Scottish priest Gilbert Primrose (approx. 1580–1641), who headed the Protestant community in Bordeaux.
See also: joke addiction , silliness