Cognitivism is useless as an account of morality and as an approach for inculcating morality.

A further important aspect of Herder’s meta-ethics has already been touched on: the complex position that he already develops in How Philosophy Can Become that sentimentalism is the correct account of the nature of morality; that cognitivism is therefore useless as an account of morality or as an approach for inculcating it, and is moreover harmful because it provokes skepticism about morality and distracts people from the real foundations of morality and from reinforcing them; and that philosop