Value Inquiry

Iddo Landau, Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780190657666, $25, Hbk

Review of Bryan Caplan's The Case Against Education

Mackie's Conceptual Reform Moral Error Theory

Is Monogamy Morally Permissible?

Daoist Metaethics

Kant's Phenomenology of Humiliation Abstract This paper presents a new reading of Kant's moral feeling: in lieu of highlighting a positive feeling of respect, I am interested in a thorough phenomenological interpretation of a negative feeling of humiliation. The paper's tone is set by underscoring that human moral Gesinnung is that which is necessarily cultivated, which entails that the striving moral agent, among other things, learns to identify and confront inclinations. It is argued, then, that one's mindfulness of the various kinds of pain of humiliated inclinations presupposes the agent's aesthetic attunement to the law of duty. To this end, two phenomenological interpretations are offered. First, general humiliation Kant caters for in the Critique of Practical Reason. Second, specific humiliation Kant alludes to in the Metaphysics of Morals. On the whole, the paper's findings ascertain the epistemic weight of humiliation, which to date has been undervalued.

Fighting Pleasure: Plato and the Expansive View of Courage

From Factitious to Veridical Attribution of Virtue: How Wang Yangming Can Do a Better Job than Alfano in Facilitating Virtue Acquisition

Constructivism and the Problem of Normative Indeterminacy

Christopher Freiman, Unequivocal Justice. New York, Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9-781-13862822-9, $140, Hbk