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Written in a week or so for his friend Thomas More, Praise of Folly satirically catalogues the advantages of folly in the world. It delightfully mocks things society values most- from marriage to the pursuit of wisdom- so, in an iconoclastic way, I like the book. There is a reformist element to the work in that he criticizes the religious establishment and its practices. He’s ultimately promoting a back-to-basics Christianity and dismisses man’s efforts to obtain knowledge through means outside
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This has some brilliant witty gems, but about halfway through I started wishing I had a more recent translation. I'm going to seek one out and read it again at some point.
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