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This work presents a study about melancholy on Robert Burton"sThe Anatomy of Melancholy.Under a clergyman perspective from Oxford who lives in the XVII century on James I"s Kingdom, the melancholic Burton"s query is exactly why the man is melancholic.Is it a transitory disposition, a habit or a curse over humanity?Why men do not understand that melancholy is their mortal condition, that they are decayed, separated from the Sacred, and come back to God instead of proposing such ineffective social reforms like utopias as it was usual in the English Renaissance?Focusing the research on the text Democritus Junior to the Reader that opens his work, nevertheless not neglecting all his extense treatise about melancholy, this dissertation joins Burton and fidgets and requires, dialogues with his contemporaneous renaissance men, with classical thinkers who tell of themes about men, with current thinkers, and wants not resolute answers, but the permanent debate among Literature, Philosophy, Theo
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This work presents a study about melancholy on Robert Burton"sThe Anatomy of Melancholy.Under a clergyman perspective from Oxford who lives in the XVII century on James I"s Kingdom, the melancholic Burton"s query is exactly why the man is melancholic.Is it a transitory disposition, a habit or a curse over humanity?Why men do not understand that melancholy is their mortal condition, that they are decayed, separated from the Sacred, and come back to God instead of proposing such ineffective social reforms like utopias as it was usual in the English Renaissance?Focusing the research on the text Democritus Junior to the Reader that opens his work, nevertheless not neglecting all his extense treatise about melancholy, this dissertation joins Burton and fidgets and requires, dialogues with his contemporaneous renaissance men, with classical thinkers who tell of themes about men, with current thinkers, and wants not resolute answers, but the permanent debate among Literature, Philosophy, Theo
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