%0 Journal Article
%T To choose one¡¯s company: Arendt, Kant, and the Political Sixth Sense
%A Jonathan P Schwartz
%J European Journal of Political Theory
%@ 1741-2730
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1474885115613700
%X This essay explores the phenomenon of common sense through a contextual analysis of Hannah Arendt¡¯s political application of Kant¡¯s Critique of Judgment. I begin by tracing the development of Arendt¡¯s thinking on judgment and common sense during the 1950s which led her to turn to the third Critique. I then consider the justification of her move by examining the philosophical context and political applications of the third Critique, arguing that within it Kant made an original and profound discovery: that the phenomenon of common sense contains a hidden faculty that may anchor moral and political judgments. I conclude by arguing that Arendt was on firmer ground than is often thought in adapting Kantian common sense to politics, a fact that may afford new possibilities for the practice of moral and political thought
%K Arendt
%K Kant
%K Heidegger
%K common sense
%K judgment
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474885115613700