num_pages: 224
description: Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities.In An Education in Judgment  philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education aimed at the cultivation of a life guided by both self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. Such a life is an education in judgment the moral capacity to draw conclusions alone and with others and letting ones own judgments be answerable to the potentially contrasting judgments of others. Thinking for Rodowick is an art we practice with and learn from each other on a daily basis. In taking this approach Rodowick follows the lead of Hannah Arendt who made judgment the cornerstone of her conception of community. What is important for Rodowick as for Arendt is the cultivation of free relations in which we allow our judgments to be affected and transformed by those of others creating an ever-widening fabric of intersubjective moral consideration. That is a fragile fabric certainly but one that Rodowick argues is worth pursuing caring for and preserving. This original work thinks with and beyond Arendt about the importance of the humanities and what the humanities amounts to beyond the walls of the university.
language: English
title: An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities
publisher: University of Chicago Press