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Chelmers plotting to capture the Moon in a barrel. The Wise Men of Chelm (Yiddish: די כעלמער חכמים, romanized: Di Khelemer khakhomim) are foolish Jewish residents of the Polish city of Chełm, a butt of Jewish jokes, similar to other towns of fools: the English Wise Men of Gotham, German Schildbürger, Greek residents of Abdera, or Finnish residents of the fictional town of Hymylä.
"Antisemitism is the socialism of fools" (German: "Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle") is a phrase denouncing the notion that Jewish "wealth" or "power" is the root of social injustice. [1]
The ship of fools, 1549 German woodcut illustration for Brant's book. Benjamin Jowett's 1871 translation recounts the story as follows: . Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better.
The debate still continues about whether Ship of Fools is itself a humanist work or just a remnant of medieval sensibilities. [6] The book was translated into Latin by Jakob Locher in 1497, [7] [1] into French by Pierre Rivière in 1497 and by Jean Drouyn [d] in 1498, into English by Alexander Barclay and by Henry Watson [d] in 1509.
Most of the book's chapters were reworked by Scruton in a book titled Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left published by Bloomsbury in 2015. This new version does not include the chapters on Laing and Bahro, who Scruton believed "have nothing to say to us today", [9] but contained additional chapters on Eric Hobsbawm, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Edward Said, Alain Badiou ...
The Paradise of Fools is a literary and historical topic and theme found in many Christian works. A traditional train of thought held that it is the place where fools or idiots were sent after death: intellectually incompetent to be held responsible for their deeds, they cannot be punished for them in hell, atone for them in purgatory, or be rewarded for them in heaven. [1]
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In folklore, a simpleton is a person whose foolish actions are the subject of often-repeated stories. Simpletons are also known as noodles or fools.Folklore often holds, with no basis in fact, that certain towns or countries are thought to be home to large numbers of simpletons.