Hannah Arendt: Pensar con Otros Como Pensar Consigo Mismo

Abstract

This monograph explores the Socratic-Kantian heritage in Hannah Arendt's philosophy, placed between the intra-subjectivity of "internal dialogue" in Socrates and the intersubjective principle of publicity proposed by Kant. In the co-relationship between "thinking for oneself" and "thinking with others", the reflective judgment opens the path to think the politics in an affirmative way, thus making it possible to develop a common sense attentive to human plurality by means of the autonomy, representative thought and coherence. More than guiding political action, judgment as a faculty of thought implies taking others into account in the construction of the public world to the extent that it recognizes the dignity of each political actor, removing him/her from all forms of political domination. Based on a strong sense of public space, Arendt proposes a rationality attentive to plurality, through the concept of amor mundi, the interest in participating and being part of public affairs.