 Nor does Herder have any account purporting to justify the moral intuitions at work in his political position as a sort of theoretical insight (in the manner of Kant’s theory of the “categorical imperative” or Rawls’s theory of the “original position”, for example). But that is again quite deliberate, given his sentimentalism in ethics, and his rejection of such theories as both false and harmful. And is he not again right about this, and the absence of such an account therefore again a good thing?