ABSTRACT
Judgement has become a notable theme in contemporary political theory. The rendering of a judgement proceeds in the context of a community based on certain shared assumptions, or rather, the judgement brings into play a whole range of different communities of shared judgement, both universal and particular, embodying wider or narrower sets of shared assumptions. The purpose of communicating the judgement is to attempt to bridge these different communities. Political judgement is a capacity whose exercise is ever-present, all around us, because politics is a realm that admits of intersubjectively binding truth claims. In ordinary political discourse, moral-political judgements, whether of justice or of prudence, do not have status limited merely to the expression of privately held 'values', or an evaluative posture towards the world; rather, they will devolve upon factual judgements concerning states of affairs in the world: past, present and future.
