ABSTRACT

This chapter deals with peering into somebody else's mind. A conscientious investigator must at some point look within, at his/her own POV. There are three reasons for this: eliminate or account for one's limitations as an investigator; ground analogies between oneself and the other person; and consult the same inward imperative that was accessible to the leader. What one will find immediately within oneself is a complex comprised of three things: that which seeks the truth (nous); the activity of seeking (zetesis); and the being moved to seek (kinesis). Hannah Arendt defined the term "judgment" in part as the ability to tell right from wrong, which means that judgment is a sensing of that inward imperative. Arendt considered determinant judgment to be necessary for daily living. An investigator faced with exercising judgment in retrospect will be expected by Arendt to consider how the situation must have seemed to the social actor one might wish to praise or blame.