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She states, “but it is true that the argument that shows that we are bound by the categorical imperative does not show that we are bound by the moral law. For that we need another step. The agent must think of herself as a Citizen of the Kingdom of Ends”. Ibid., p. 100.
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A particularly precise critique of Arendt’s spectator/actor distinction is to be found in Paul Ricœur’s The Just. Translated by David Pellauer. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 94–108. Although Ricœur admires Arendt’s reconstruction he points out that political judgment requires the actor as well as the spectator in the sense that without the action of the revolutionary there would be nothing to judge. Equally, he regards the emphasis on contemplation to eliminate the prophetic role of aesthetic judgment. The example of war makes the point. It is only tolerable from the point of view of the spectator, but from the point of view of moral judgment it is absolutely intolerable.
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Rasmussen, D.M. (2004). Reasonability and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Arendt, Korsgaard and Rawls. In: Kemp, P. (eds) Philosophical Problems Today. Philosophical Problems Today, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3027-4_7
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