What is good political judgement? Is it a science subject to strict
standards of logic and inference, or is it something more like an
art, the product of intuition, feeling, or even chance? Peter J.
Steinberger shows how the seemingly contradictory claims of
inference and intuition are reconciled in the concept of political
judgement. Resting his argument on the larger notion of judgement
itself, Steinberger develops an original model of how political
judgements are made and how we justify calling some of them "good."
He lays the groundwork with a discussion of the ideas of
Machiavelli, de Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, and Oakeshott on
the nature of politics. Turning to the philosophic arguments of
Kant, Gadamer, Grice, and Wittgenstein, he formulates a model of
judgement as "intelligent performance," incorporating both
intuition and rational reconstruction. Steinberger's conclusion -
that a coherent political society must also be a judgmental one -
is opposed to much contemporary thinking.
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