The Many Faces of Snape was: High Noon for OFH!Snape

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 149746

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:

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> It would be viewed by people who prefer Snape's result-oriented 
> values as idiotic.  Weirdly, both parties would probably view the 
> disliked character's action as selfish (hey, I paged Dr. Kant days 
> ago and he still hasn't show up... one of these days I'm going to 
> write a big post about Kantian!Snape, probably when I'm under 
> multiple deadlines on projects that I'm actually being paid for).

When you speak of Kantian!Snape, are you thinking of Snape as being a
Kantian?  Because your own description of Snape up there,
'result-oriented values', is the ultimate opposite of what Kant makes
the total foundation of his metaphysics of morals: intention.

Nothing perfectly good except for the perfectly good will, and treat
every person as an end in and of himself.  Someone put it once,
interpretively, as means being the ends to Kant, and means are thus
very tightly regulated.  I can't imagine Snape fitting together in his
spy role and many of his other actions with Kant, the man who made the
serious argument that it's better not to lie to a man who has come to
kill your friend than to lie and save your friend's life accordingly.

-Nora dredges up her fond memories of struggling through the stuff as
a wee first-year