 Finally, Herder also has a set of sophisticated and attractive reasons why accurate interpretation of the sort that he aims at is important. These include (1) the intrinsic interest of the ideas of historical and cultural Others thereby discovered, (2) the cosmopolitan respect that striving to understand them accurately both evinces and encourages, (3) the possibility of thereby discovering ideas different from our own which we can incorporate into our own perspective in order to improve it in various ways (e.g., ideas concerning morals or art), and (4) the possibility of thereby enhancing not only our understanding but also our self-understanding, namely, by coming to see in the light of comparisons what is distinctive of our own perspective and what not, and by coming to see how it has developed historically out of earlier perspectives. 