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    <body><![CDATA[Després d'haver-lo llegit no pots viure com si res. Has pogut pensar amb les idees d'una ment gran, que mai hauries conegut si no l´haguessis llegit. Aquí copiï les cites preferides: <br/><br/>Es imposible que un ser finito, aunque sea extraordinariamente perspicaz y esté tremendamente capaci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73774299">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As has been said elsewhere and with more authority than I can muster without citing letters after my name, this book, even on its own, is a landmark for thinking on par with Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. While criticism is often waged upon this deceivingly simple book, one must truly understand t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46417636">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good = Bad<br/><br/>I've always been one that I would consider of extreme moral character.  And my view, you always knew what was right because it required the sacrifice.  Odd how this book was refered to me because the referer thought it would only bolster my resolve.  Quite to the contrary, it d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60520906">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Work on an M.Div. thesis entitled &quot;Immanuel Kant's Influence on the Thought of C.G. Jung&quot; had me read all of the Kant the latter had read as evinced by the books in his library and the citations given in his writings.  Now, two years later, having returned to school to study philosophy, I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43876211">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not understand all. But what I did understand of this short &amp; steep work resonated with me and made me rethink my dogmatic refusal of his thought on account of it being too dogmatic.<br/><br/>I was a fool and may still be. Now that I have recognised this I have set myself the formidable task of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60773031">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say no matter how many times I read over some of the paragraphs in this, I still couldn't grasp it completely. BUT, I felt like once I got into the flow of the book, I got sucked in and loved it. There was so much to dissect and digest. I wish I could have studied it in a class or with a g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52162668">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to be honest, I didn't like this book so much because it was so dry, and for the volume of pages he writes he said so little]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great text but too dense. Philosophy should be for the masses and the common man because that is where good decisions make a difference. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kant develops his theory of the 'Categorical Imperative', which is actually the fundamental principle of Reason applied to conduct.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This really is one of the greatest works in western philosophy.  Is it perfect?  No, but Kant does so much here for deontological ethics.  ]]></body>
    
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