A pearl in Kant: the recovery of Kantian aesthetical reflective judgment under a political dimension

Abstract

reflective, a paradigm for her way of defining the political judgment. Obviously,
this appropriation without compunction induces much criticism among the readers of
Kant given the fact that Arendt overlooks all the assumptions of Kantian transcendental
idealism to reach the reflective aesthetic judgments as a paradigm of political thinking. She invites us to reflect on the reasons which led her to disregard the Kant’s ethical work

as a reference to her political theory and, even more intriguing, what could allow Arendt
to make such a cut and to seek a political philosophy in such a unusual work. Thus, the
reflective judgment is the theoretical fragment used by her in order to regain our ability to
understand, because this is our true political faculty which allows the building of action
criteria based on communication between men.