Abstract

ZAPATA DIAZ, Guillermo Alfonso. The aesthetic rationality of political judgment. Escritos - Fac. Filos. Let. Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2014, vol.22, n.49, pp.337-368. ISSN 0120-1263.

Hannah Arendt considers that the action of the citizens belonging to a participatory democracy should be judging. Therefore, the true citizen should be educated in political judgment. Every citizen exercises her full participation through the exchange of arguments which account for her actions. Such an argumentation faculty stimulates their political participation. However, political judgment consists not only of thinking within the logical-rational dimension of understanding. On the contrary, since politics is determined by action and speech, it also involves another registers of practical reason, such as aesthetics and history. The following paper initiates the transition from the political to the aesthetical dimension by emphasizing on what we understand by reflective and aesthetical judgment. These kinds of judgments will allow the development of the faculty of judging that is typical of political dimension. By going over aesthetic rationality, which highlights the importance of the subjective dimension that can be communicated, Kantian aesthetics pave the way to political judging, which is also centered in the intersubjective dialogue of interests for negotiating that is characteristic of a democratic process. Concepts such as taste, common sense and aesthetic genius might be compared with political leadership, which can cause attraction (in the case of politics) and produce pleasure for aesthetics (in the case of good taste).

Keywords : Political Judgment; Reflection; Common Sense; Political Action; Political.

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