folly
Folly , a descending term from upscale colloquial language, describes the negative (faulty) side of simplicity .
A gate or foolish is mutatis mutandis a person who can not understand something, as long as they have not experienced it themselves. The gate only realizes after the child has fallen into the well that it is dead. The goal cannot assess the situation beforehand. As a person, he acts foolishly out of limitations ("... defiant, cheeky, unteachable, unreasonable, aggressive, immature, naive ..."). A goal chases after the unattainable or chooses unsuitable (impractical) means to achieve reasonable intentions, for example shooting at sparrows with cannons. So folly is the opposite of cleverness or cunning.
In the older language the term is often used with sharper accusations. The fool is a fool , unteachable, wanton and causes considerable damage up to and including outrage .
Occurrence in literature
- Wolfram von Eschenbach describes his Parzival as “ pure fools”, which is almost an oxymoron
- Richard Wagner also describes his Parsifal as the pure fool, who, however , becomes knowing through pity :
- "Knowing through pity, the pure fool ..."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Faust I : (Night) “… Here I am, poor fool! // And am as smart as before; ... " (from the first edition of Faust from 1808)
- The word is used widely in Bible translations such as:
- Erasmus von Rotterdam : Praise of folly , a humorous exaggeration and self-reflection of folly in daily life, also why life without folly, i.e. pure reason , means emptiness and destroys the joy of life .
- Heinrich von Kleist in Prince Friedrich von Homburg : "I know // What moves this young fool's chest?"
- Barbara Tuchman : The folly of the rulers - From Troy to Vietnam ISBN 3-10-080005-2
Occurrence in the film
- Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars , Episode 4: A New Hope: “Who's the Bigger Goal? The gate or the gate that follows it? "
