The concept of a capable subject and the attestation of that subject’s ethical intention are central to Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology. He sums up ethical intention as the ability to aim to live a fulfilled life, with and for others, within appropriate institutions. On the other hand, the available empirical evidence in moral psychology points rather toward the pre-eminence of automatic processes, emotion and intuition in moral judgments. In a digital age, this brings new challenges for moral education.