On the importance of examples for Hannah Arendt’s faculty of judgment
If the political catastrophes of the twentieth century have made it common to evade issuing judgments, on the other hand, their importance to the dignity of politics is undeniable. However, how to issue politically valid judgments in a context where there are not sufficiently stable standards to do...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) |
| Repositorio: | Argumentos : Revista de Filosofia (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufc:article/95182 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://periodicos.ufc.br/argumentos/article/view/95182 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Exemplo. Validade exemplar. Julgamento. Mundo. Hannah Arendt. Example. Exemplary validity. Judgement. World. Hannah Arendt. |
| Sumario: | If the political catastrophes of the twentieth century have made it common to evade issuing judgments, on the other hand, their importance to the dignity of politics is undeniable. However, how to issue politically valid judgments in a context where there are not sufficiently stable standards to do so? Based on this question, Hannah Arendt starts from the Kantian conceptualization of examples, as based on the Critique of the faculty of judgment, to identify the importance of exemplary validity both for the life of the spirit and for the preservation of the vita activa. In this context, the objective of this article is to discuss Arendt’s analysis of the examples, to identify why they can be considered potent links between the activities that distinguish men qua men and, therefore, have a direct impact on the way individuals decide to appear to themselves and to others. |
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