Zeitschrift fur Ethik und Moralphilosophie = Journal for ethics and moral philosophy

The authority and politics of epiphanic experience.

Zeitschrift fur Ethik und Moralphilosophie = Journal for ethics and moral philosophy 2026 Matthieu Queloz

In Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience, Sophie Grace Chappell offers a phenomenology of epiphanies-those high points in experience when values most vividly reveal themselves to us. Yet Chappell's method of using phenomenological descriptions to show that we live by our epiphanies leaves open the question of their authority. Why should the epiphanic carry more authority than more sober...