Kant severed the presumed symmetry between friendship and 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

Categorization

• XREF: Fits alongside Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction which this chapter has been unpacking; Kant unseats the reciprocity Schmitt assumes.
• QUESTION: Kant’s undeveloped ‘enemy without enmity’ notion versus unilateral declarations — worth hunting how Schmitt’s reply develops past this.