Hannah Arendts politikforståelse og menneskesyn – Foreningen af eksistenstænkning og republikanisme

Abstract

In this article, Arendt’s philosophy is put forward as both republicanism and existentialism. The common denominator is the concept of judgment as the way in which political individuals take into account the perspective of fellow acting and thinking human beings. In presenting Arendt’s philosophy of public speech and public judgment, this contribution argues that there is no tension between acting and thinking in Arendt’s philosophy. They are both ruled by a critical faculty by which we are aware of the communicability and universality of our reasons for intervening, imagining and judging other people’s lives.