After discussing the four orders of reflexive emotion separately, this chapter places them side by side, with a view to showing, first, that in addition to being exclusively human, each of them constitutes a profound manifestation of a different grounding component of our humanity: primary shame, of the most rudimentary aspect of human selfhood; secondary shame, of our normativity; humor, of the uniqueness of our conceptual languages; humility, of our very rationality; second-order emotions, of our ability rationally assess our normative commitments. Second, setting them side by side allows us to appreciate the extent to which living up to our full human potential necessarily requires engaging real others—a claim of crucial political significance.