Arendt's writings on the theme of judgment can be seen to fall into two more or less distinct phases, an early one in which judgment is the faculty of political actors acting in the public realm, and a later one in which it is the privilege of non-participating spectators, primarily poets and historians, who seek to understand the meaning of the past and to reconcile us to what has happened.
We all have our own themes of disdaining judgment -- some judge overweight people or the homeless or parents who Ferber-ize their babies or people who vote Republican.
In the course, students took a closer look at the text of the seven "Harry Potter" books for themes of moral judgment and transformation, and supplemental reading included pieces such as "Hermione Granger and the Charge of Sexism" by Sarah Zettel, or "Love Potion No. 9 ¾" by Gregory Bassham.
In subsequent exchanges between the Khazar king and his interlocutors, Halevi goes on to furnish important additional information about both the speakers themselves and also about the principles, themes, and criteria of judgment that will be invoked to advance the dialogue and to evaluate the views and justifications offered to support them.
The most common theme was that of judgment in the form of stigma.
The themes of God and judgment are all around.
The connection between aesthetic judgment and moral feeling is a persistent theme in the Critique of Judgment.
In addition to this focus on the theme of reductive relations between parts and wholes, Kant also addressed the theme of the relation among different scientific domains in his discussion of sciences having their own distinct concepts and subject matter (Critique of Judgment, §68, 79).
We still read them, and long to retell them, because they feel so deeply universal; their themes of love, family, duty, judgment and prejudice resonate across the centuries.
The relativity of judgment is an old Pyrrhonist theme, used to generate the problem of the criterion (by, e.g., Sextus Empiricus).
