Judgment

Judgment in the Seba lineage names the act of valuation by which the psyche discriminates what matters from what does not, what coheres from what does not, what is rightly ordered from what is not. Against the modern habit of treating judgment as the exclusive province of reason — the cognitive side of the Cartesian split — both the classical tradition and Jung’s typology place judgment as a function of feeling as much as of thinking.

In Jung‘s technical sense, judgment is the axis on which feeling and thinking stand as the two judging functions, distinguished from sensation and intuition which are perceiving functions. Both judging functions render verdicts: thinking judges what is true or false; feeling judges what is valued or disvalued. Aristotle‘s account of phronēsis — practical wisdom as the disposition to judge rightly in particular situations — is the classical ancestor of the thesis that Jung articulates in psychological-typological form. See feeling-as-rational-valuation and feeling-function.

Relationships

• feeling-function
• feeling-as-rational-valuation
• psychological-functions