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Day 9 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
This is a tough one. Like most people, I don't usually read books I don't think I'll like unless they're assigned reading, and (perhaps unlike most people) I generally go into my assigned reading with a fairly open mind, not pre-judging whether I think I'll like it or not.
Of the fairly small pool of books I had to read that I thought I wouldn't like, the only one I think I can say I ended up 'loving' is Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals -- and even here, it is a fairly academic sort of 'love'. I had been apprehensive about reading it because I'd just been struggling through his Critique of Pure Reason in another class, and expected this to be similarly impenetrable, but in fact I found the Groundwork to be pleasingly straightforward in its style. I also found quite a lot that I could agree with, and gained intellectual tools that have been invaluable in shaping my own thinking about morality.
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This is a tough one. Like most people, I don't usually read books I don't think I'll like unless they're assigned reading, and (perhaps unlike most people) I generally go into my assigned reading with a fairly open mind, not pre-judging whether I think I'll like it or not.
Of the fairly small pool of books I had to read that I thought I wouldn't like, the only one I think I can say I ended up 'loving' is Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals -- and even here, it is a fairly academic sort of 'love'. I had been apprehensive about reading it because I'd just been struggling through his Critique of Pure Reason in another class, and expected this to be similarly impenetrable, but in fact I found the Groundwork to be pleasingly straightforward in its style. I also found quite a lot that I could agree with, and gained intellectual tools that have been invaluable in shaping my own thinking about morality.
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