What is the last book you read, and your rating?
Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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My rating of the book is 3 out of 4 stars. Only because the book is confusing in the beginning. There are a multitude of new characters. It's kind of difficult to keep track of everyone. But nonetheless, it was a good book and the ending was great.
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My favorite part is when he states that metaphysical presuppositions such as the religious idea of God are not within the critical reasoning of the human being, since we do not have a way to contrast it with an empirical experience or the explained a priori knowledge. About this, he explains that it entails a series of internalized empirical rules, and that it cannot help us to believe in metaphysical experience either and, therefore, we should not let self-imposed rules by this dubious deity and its precepts impede scientific advance and reasoning a priori that our critical capacity can grant us through rational judgments on more interesting topics for scientific advance.
Another issue that it touch on linguistics, not as such because as a formal science it still has a few centuries to be formed, was the realization of the word (sign), different from the meaning (signifier), which reminded me with great affection of my classes in university studying the beginnings of Saussure. What a pleasure that Kant had already thought of everything by simply applying rigor to his reasoning.
In short, all in all it is a good book for academics, but quite dense if you are going to enter philosophy for the first time. I recommend that you start with the Greek classics and come to this one only when you are already somewhat trained and want to clarify your rational thinking. 4/5
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And as the good aromantic that I am, I can't say that I particularly liked it, but that's a personal taste.
What did seem quite outdated to me and only attributable to the time is the imposed idea of marriage in women (in men it is another issue) to culminate the loving desire. And sometimes not even that. Only that the woman must let herself be liberated by love. (What does virtue matters at the time, of course.)
In the case of men, the constant incitement to procreation is undeniable. Because there's not a complete man who does not leave progeny. So responsible parenthood at that time was none.
I also saw some winks towards free love, like between three individuals, in which you can play with the idea of various and interchangeable lovers. William just wants to loves, let him.
In any case there are sonnets for all tastes despite the above, so it would be good to have one or the other in mind to dedicate to one special person when the occasion arises. 3/5
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but 4 of 4 does it

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There are many parallels to analyze and I would liked to be more updated with the history of this country to be able to capture all of them, but the ones I could recognize were entertaining since the author mixes drama, humor or satire at every moment and therefore makes the reading entertaining. It's a long story, yes, but once you get into it, you won't stop reading. 4/5
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I rate it a 4/4