Common Sense and Philosophy: Friends or Foes?

In this lecture, I'd like to present a brief history of the conceptual progression in philosophy regarding knowledge and truth's relationship to common sense. With rationality, reason, logic, and the ideal as privileged concepts of most Western philosophy up to about the 1890s, common sense was relegated to the castigated position of mere semblance or opinion, while formal knowledge was seen as the apex of truthful apprehension of the world. However, this would soon change with the philosophers after the moderns both in history and conceptually (hence my insistence that these are the first post-modern philosophers), such as the American pragmatists and Martin Heidegger. This change will be demonstrated and analyzed in order to track the resurgence of common sense and non-formal know-how as legitimate forms of knowledge. Enjoy!

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[srinjoyray]

Great work! Keep going friend.

PS Would love a video or two on contemporary philosophical discourses! Meta-modern and urban philosophy.

Best wishes and support!

[lollipopfactorial]

Fun fact: this turn to common sense happened before these philosophers with Thomas Reid.