교육받은 종교인: 에라스무스의 르네상스적 시각

Abstract

This study is to understand Erasmus’s view on free will and liberal education from the perspective of the Renaissance man.
 In Erasmus’s view on free will, human being’s soul consists of both reason and free will which are considered to be inseparable and necessarily connected to each other, and free will could be cultivated in the process of improving reason through education. Erasmus accepts the concept of free choice which plays a role in arbitrarily choosing good or evil. Furthermore, he insists that the free choice is born from free will and reason. In his view, free will and reason exist as a form or a principle of the free choice. In other words, Erasmus presupposes the metaphysical dualism of the free choice and the free will. However, free will and reason corrupted by the Fall are not destroyed but restored through education.
 From the standpoint of education at the present time, Erasmus’s educational theory shows that there exists a intimate the relation between knowledge and morality. More specifically, he tries to reconcile Hellenism with Hebraism and demonstrate that there exists a necessary connection between reason and free will.