As faculdades do pensamento e do juízo em Hannah Arendt

Abstract

Thought and Judgment are two of the spiritual faculties of the human being. Although they relate to each other, they are irreducible, and the our work aims to investigate how this relationship in the irreducibility happens. The thought, according to the author, is a faculty specifically human that is different from cognition, at the same time in which it turns a presupposition for it. Knowing in what this human capacity consists is fundamental for us to know in what way the human being can guarantee to himself its exercise, for what mechanisms he can abstain of exercising it, and what are the consequences of this abstention. Even if, to Hannah Arendt, the thought doesn't have an end beyond itself, it has implications when does not exist, and these ones usually slide to the politics, whose paroxisms can take to the totalitarianism. The judgement, in its turn, being a more particular faculty, is related to the taste, to that which is subjective, but, even so, it is anchored in a certain way to a misterious intuitive knowing that allows us to valorate what appears to us objectively. This human judicative capacity, also an end of itself, is, paradoxically, essential to not happen the phenomenon called by Arendt as "banality of the evil".