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November 18, 2023
I stole this book (ironic) from my parents’ book shelf when i was 10 or something and it’s since been either in my book shelf or in one of my boxes. I have never read it until yesterday, at the age of 26.
I doubt I would’ve understood it at the degree I do now, at a time when I’ve been figuring the questions discussed in this book myself.
At times I found myself be like “Yes! I thought that, too!”, other times I was down a rabbit hole of thought and research to try and find a more in depth explanation and sometimes I was finding myself questioning or criticising what I’ve been reading.
Considering that this book is 20 years old by next year, it -almost- reads like a contemporary book. The last two or so chapters weren’t able to capture me the way the first few did. I think the matters have just aged like milk and are coming from a pretty privileged, western philosophical view.
Nevertheless, it’s a wonderful and extremely comprehensible introduction to ethics. I would gladly recommend it to anyone. The core message is to do your own research and form your own opinion - Kant argue with that (haha, funny. No but there’s a lot of Kant in this and I found it funny when, right after I was telling myself how unreadable Kant’s writing is, they made a joke about it.).
I doubt I would’ve understood it at the degree I do now, at a time when I’ve been figuring the questions discussed in this book myself.
At times I found myself be like “Yes! I thought that, too!”, other times I was down a rabbit hole of thought and research to try and find a more in depth explanation and sometimes I was finding myself questioning or criticising what I’ve been reading.
Considering that this book is 20 years old by next year, it -almost- reads like a contemporary book. The last two or so chapters weren’t able to capture me the way the first few did. I think the matters have just aged like milk and are coming from a pretty privileged, western philosophical view.
Nevertheless, it’s a wonderful and extremely comprehensible introduction to ethics. I would gladly recommend it to anyone. The core message is to do your own research and form your own opinion - Kant argue with that (haha, funny. No but there’s a lot of Kant in this and I found it funny when, right after I was telling myself how unreadable Kant’s writing is, they made a joke about it.).
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