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Entering Discworld. Population: Terry Pratchett.

Imaginary Worlds

CHAPTER

The Immanuel Kant of Granny

Granny's approach to human beings is always motivated by a particular philosophical disposition. As a philosophy professor, Jacob help thinks that Granny's MO reminds him of the 18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant. She's got a quote I'll paraphrase where she says effectively that all evil springs from treating people as things. And that's very Kantian. You respect humans because they have this dignity.

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