Concept
Common sense
Overview
set of widely accepted beliefs
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Since now this accordance itself must admit of universal communicability, and consequently also our feeling of it (in a given representation), and since the universal communicability of a feeling presupposes a common sense, we have grounds for assuming this latter. And this common sense is assumed without relying on psychological observations, but simply as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
Names Common sense several times; states what Common sense is.
The appeal to common sense is even more absurd, when concept and principles are announced as valid, not in so far as they hold with regard to experience, but even beyond the conditions of experience. For what is common sense? It is normal good sense, so far it judges right. But what is normal good sense?
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Names Common sense several times; states what Common sense is.
These various lines of argument prove, I think, that some part of the beliefs of common sense must be abandoned. They prove that, if we take these beliefs as a whole, we are forced into conclusions which are in part self-contradictory; but such arguments cannot of themselves decide what portion of our common-sense beliefs is in need of correction. Common sense believes that what we see is physical, outside the mind…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Names Common sense several times; states what Common sense is.
Philosophers who discussed Common sense
- G. E. Moore
- Heraclitus
- John of Salisbury
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Thomas Reid
- Aristotle
- Antonio Gramsci
- Norman Malcolm
- David Hume
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- Achille Varzi (philosopher)
- James Frederick Ferrier
- Oets Kolk Bouwsma
- Ionel Gherea
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Epictetus
- Étienne Gilson
- French Revolution
- Avicenna
- Francis Bacon
- George Berkeley
- G. E. Moore
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Cartesianism
- Pyrrhonism
- Philosophy
- Meditations
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Historicism
- Immanuel Kant
- Internalism and externalism
- Intuition
- John Stuart Mill
- Albertus Magnus
- John Locke
- Novum Organum
- Jürgen Habermas
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.