Posted by Zoe on May 02, 1997 at 21:37:45:
In reply to Re: Identity and Principles - Alternative Realities Again posted by Zoe on May 02, 1997 at 21:25:20
] ] Second of all, yes, identity is derived from one's own principles, but the operative words here are own principles. . . But the PROBLEM I still have with the situation is that Fanny isn't really "right," she is lucky. There is really no skill of experience in her "insight." She plagiarised the fruit of another's moral education . . .
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Do you think it impossible that Fanny could have found Edmund's principles self-evident, and so made them her own? I suppose you must, but I'm not so sure. I'm not rereading MP right now, but I do know that when I've read it in the past, Fanny's morality has never struck me as something external to her. I do find her rather passive-aggressive, but I don't know if I've gotten that from the book or the BBC adaptation.
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