Thought and Political Judgment

Autores/as

  • Roger W. H. Savage University of California at Los Angeles, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2021.543

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Keywords, Eros, Evil, Freedom, Philosophical Anthropology, Political Judgment, Phronesis, Reason, Reflective Judgment, Sensus Communis.

Resumen

Hannah Arendt’s claim that thinking is the last defense against the moral outrages of criminal political regimes sets the problematic of good and evil in relief. Human freedom, Paul Ricœur reminds us, is responsible for evil. The avowal of the evil of violence is thus the condition of our consciousness of the freedom to act anew.

Aesthetic experience’s lateral transposition onto the planes of ethics and politics highlights our capacity to respond to exigencies in apposite ways.  Exemplary representations of the good, the right, and the justexpress a desire for being. Eros is accordingly the law of every work, word, deed, or act that answers to a difficulty, challenge, or crisis. Bound to living experiences, thought attains its true height through interrogating, demystifying, and vacating frozen norms, standards, and mores. Judgment actualizes thought’s liberating effects in answer to the demands of the situations in which we find ourselves.

Biografía del autor/a

Roger W. H. Savage, University of California at Los Angeles, USA

Roger W. H. Savage is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in hermeneutics, aesthetics, and politics. His books include Hermeneutics and Music Criticism,  Music, Time, and Its Other: Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity, and Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology as Hermeneutics of Liberation: Freedom, Justice, and the Power of Imagination. He also edited Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis, and Critique and Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body. Prof. Savage is a founding member and past president of the Society for Ricoeur Studies.

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2021-12-15

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