Abstract
Julia Annas argues in "Personal Love and Kantian Ethics in 'Effi Briest'" (in Philosophy and Literature, April 1984) that Fontane's novel reveals how deeply destructive Kant's ethics, if put into practice, is to all that is most valuable in human life. I contest this, arguing that Effi's husband is not the Kantian man of principle that he appears to be. In doing so, I attempt to correct some common misunderstandings of just what a Kantian character would be.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Friendship: A Philosophical Reader |
Editors | Neera Kapur Badhwar |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 174-191 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Publication status | Published - 1993 |