Kant severed the link between having an enemy and harboring enmity

Evidence

Kant, on the other hand, may have been engaged in the most systematic-if brief-undoing of the link, symmetry, and reciprocity between friend and enemy, and even between enemy and enmity. “Enmity,” Feindschaft, wrote Kant, “is more than lack of friendship,” Freundschaft, and “a friendless man is not necessarily a general enemy.” “One can have an enemy without enmity,” Kant continued, placing the onus on unilateral declarations. “Enmity is an express disposition to do harm to another” (Kant, Lectures on Ethics, 209-ro/G265-66). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 995 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Kant severed the presumed symmetry between friendship and enmity — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 995

Broader Connections

• Kant severed the presumed symmetry between friendship and enmity #expands (0.92) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 995