Arendt identifies judgment with the capacity to think "representatively,"that is, from the standpoint of everyone else. Arendt called this capacity to think representatively an "enlarged mentality," adopting the same term used by Kant in his Third Critique to characterize aesthetic judgment. She credits Kant with having dislodged the prejudice that judgments of taste lie altogether outside the political realm, since they supposedly concern only aesthetic matters. She believes, in fact, that by linking taste to that wider manner of thinking which Kant called an "enlarged mentality," the way was opened to a revaluation of judgment as a specific political ability, namely,as the ability to think from the standpoint of everyone else.
For Arendt the acquisition of an "enlarged mentality" is the sine qua non of both political and aesthetic judgment.She maintained that this enlarged way of thinking could only be acquired in public, in the actual or anticipated dialogue with the standpoints and perspectives of others.Political opinions,she claimed , can never be formed in private ; they are formed,tested,and enlarged within a public context of argumentation and debate. Public debate and discussion is indeed crucial to the formation of opinions that can claim more than subjective validity; individuals may hold petsonal opinions on many subject matters, but they can form representative opiions only by testing and purifying their views through a process of democratic debate and enlightenment.The same holds true for the formation of valid judgments:as "the most political of man's mental abilities," judgment can be exercised and tested only in a context of public deliberation and debate, a context where everyone is encouragef to enlarge his or her perspective and to acknowledge th standpoint of others.
Arendt identifies judgment with the capacity to think "representatively,"that is, from the standpoint of everyone else. Arendt called this capacity to think representatively an "enlarged mentality," adopting the same term used by Kant in his Third Critique to characterize aesthetic judgment. She credits Kant with having dislodged the prejudice that judgments of taste lie altogether outside the political realm, since they supposedly concern only aesthetic matters. She believes, in fact, that by linking taste to that wider manner of thinking which Kant called an "enlarged mentality," the way was opened to a revaluation of judgment as a specific political ability, namely,as the ability to think from the standpoint of everyone else. For Arendt the acquisition of an "enlarged mentality" is the sine qua non of both political and aesthetic judgment.She maintained that this enlarged way of thinking could only be acquired in public, in the actual or anticipated dialogue with the standpoints and perspectives of others.Political opinions,she claimed , can never be formed in private ; they are formed,tested,and enlarged within a public context of argumentation and debate. Public debate and discussion is indeed crucial to the formation of opinions that can claim more than subjective validity; individuals may hold petsonal opinions on many subject matters, but they can form representative opiions only by testing and purifying their views through a process of democratic debate and enlightenment.The same holds true for the formation of valid judgments:as "the most political of man's mental abilities," judgment can be exercised and tested only in a context of public deliberation and debate, a context where everyone is encouragef to enlarge his or her perspective and to acknowledge th standpoint of others.
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