====== krinein ======

The judgment ( Lat. //judicium//, from //judico//, //judicare// ) that justice entails relates to a much broader sphere; it refers as much to the act of judging in the sense of “pronouncing a verdict,” as to that of judging in the sense of “forming an opinion of, appreciating, thinking”—and it also designates the “faculty” described by Kant ( in the second part of the Analytic of the //Critique of Pure Reason// ) as the “power to subsume within rules,” which is the source of the latter. The Greek //krinein//  does not come from the same root ( //krinein// comes rather from //*krin-ye/o//, which means “to separate out, to sift”; we find *//krin// in the Latin //cerno//, and in the French //critique//, //critère//, //crise//  or //discernement// ), but still contains the same breadth of meanings, which range between the judgment of a court and a logical, aesthetic, or moral judgment.