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There can be no doubt that Kant thought we should be reflective: we ought to care to make up our own minds about how things are and what is worth doing. Philosophical objections to the Kantian reflective ideal have centred on concerns about the excessive control that the reflective person is supposed to exert over their own mental life, and Kantians who feel the force of these objections have recently drawn attention to Kant's conception of moral virtue as it is developed in his later work, chiefly the Metaphysics of Morals. Melissa Merritt's book is a distinctive contribution to this recent turn to virtue in Kant scholarship. Merritt argues that we need a clearer, and textually more comprehensive, account of what reflection is, in order not only to understand Kant's account of virtue, but also to appreciate how it effectively rebuts long-standing objections to the Kantian reflective ideal

Abstract
One of the central features of the traditional professorial career, the academic conference, can provoke dramatically different responses; for academics of a certain age and established status, the conference is a source of nostalgia. And a number of academic novels, particularly David Lodge's Small World, celebrate the conference in nostalgic terms. At the same time the conference can be challenged on many fronts, including its cost but, even more, its role in catering to, and perpetuating, privilege in the academy, or what one observer calls "the continued feudalization of academia." Lodge's original title, We Can't Go On Meeting Like This, may have been prophetic, as the challenges to continuing to meet "like this," particularly the resentment of angry academic outsiders, may overcome the nostalgic enjoyment of the traditional conference.

Character: don't leave home without it -- Integrity: living under the microscope -- Honesty: nothing but the truth -- Humility: it's not about me -- Loyalty: I'll be there -- Respect: honor above all -- Authenticity: the real deal -- Generosity: give it all you've got -- Courage: go big, go bold -- Perseverance: run the stop sign -- Self-control: caging the lion -- Forgiveness: when the doctor heals himself -- Faithfulness: you can count on me -- Main character -- Character above all.