Judgment and the moral foundations of politics in Arendt's thought

In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 16, Heft Feb 88

Abstract

Examines some of the hermeneutic puzzles by focussing on 1 aspect of Arendt's reflections on judgment in particular. Discusses judgment as a moral faculty. Arendt called judgment 'the most political' of all our cognitive faculties. Follows her inconclusive reflections to develop a phemonological analysis of judgment as a moral faculty and criticises her problematic separation of morality from politics. (Abstract amended)