Juízo, imaginação e mentalidade alargada: a interpretação arendtiana do juízo estético kantiano

Abstract

In this paper I intend to present some of the Kantian concepts presented in his Critique of judgment and appropriated by Hannah Arendt in her political analysis of the Kantian aesthetic judgment: judgment, imagination, enlarged mentality, common sense. Despite the di!culties arising from the un"nished character of Arendt’s approach on the life of spirit, we attempt to expose that she "nds, within Kant’s works, the basic elements of her analysis of the mental activity of judging. She not only argues that the re#ective aesthetic judgment might be politically adopted, but also that in the hidden political philosophy of Kantian work lies in the Critique of Judgment. To this controversial position I am only goin to refer to by analyzing the concepts of critical thinking and enlarged mentality.