Physical orientation was a central philosophical problem for German thinkers in the late eighteenth century. Moses Mendelssohn, for instance, pondered in Morgenstunden, o Vorlesungen uber das Daseyn Gotten (1785) whether one can orient oneself in the metaphysical realm with the…

The debate on the relationship between income, income inequality, and health of the last two decades has been based almost entirely on empirical considerations. The ideas prompting the debate are based on the concave relationship observed between health and income…