Arendtian Notes On The Republic of Rosler

Abstract

The present work seeks to establish a dialogue with Andrés Ros- ler’s book Public Reasons. Six Concepts on The Republic. First, we focus on the Arendtian idea of thinking together about the classic republican concept of “political debate” and the performance of the “faculty of judging” -which Rosler continues-, as well as the possibility of updating it under conditions of “modernity”. Secondly, we propose another reading of classical republican freedom: one that puts the idea of people’s participation at the center -which is not merely a defense of Greek “positive freedom”, but of its Roman reading, which preserves and expand it. Third, we propose to review the exemplarity of the Republican Bruto, defended by the author of the book through an analysis of Shakespeare’s Julio César.