La bellezza del bene. Il debito di Hannah Arendt nei confronti di Immanuel Kant

While illustrating my research it's worth pointing out that the ethical issue interweaves with the human aesthetic dimension as the Arendtian reflection - in its attempt to rethink Ethics and refound Politics - finds in Kant's thought the conclusive theoretical crucial point to deal with in order then, to go on. Arendt takes as her model the aesthetic Kantian judgement that turns the individual as a judging spectator into the universal observator. Therefore she uses the concept of subjective universality as communicability of the judgement of taste, to reflect upon Ethics in the light of the aesthetic dimension mostly basing on the Kantian concept of "exemplary validity" and "common sense". My research considers the Arendtian attempt to reflect upon Ethics and Politics, which have undergone a serious collapse since the age of totalitarism and Shoah and must be thought over with totally new interpretative instruments, as the attempt to go bach to the living origins of western philosophical tradition to get the necessary instruments for their refounding. This method, with the comparison of the respective positions and themes in the authors' work, has enabled me to reconstruct, in the confrontation and critical dialogue that Arendt has with Kant, the decisive debt to his philosophy.