TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - On the culture of benevolence: Kant and tolstoy on the commandment to love one's neighbors
JO  - Russian Studies in Philosophy
A1  - Soloviev, E.Y.
SP  - 296
EP  - 322
VL  - 56
IS  - 4
N2  - This article represents a paradoxical attempt to read Leo Tolstoy from the perspective of Kant studies. The article subjects Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina to the criteria and explanatory mechanisms of the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. The author shows that Kant and Tolstoy, both the creators of extremely demanding moral doctrines, strongly condemn the imperative interpretation of the feelings of benevolence and love; they act as opponents of paternalism, authoritarianism, and the compulsory demand to make others happy. The author traces the history of Tolstoy's acquaintance with Kant's ethical works and points to the similarity between the decree of Friedrich Wilhelm II forbidding Kant to speak on religious issues and the excommunication of Tolstoy from the Russian church a century later. Special attention is devoted to the discussion of how both authors' works cultivate the same themes of the simulation of feelings and aggressively conformist culture. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1061-1967
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10611967.2018.1473679
ID  - ref1
ER  -