Common sense is basically what is commonly sensed by people. In other words it is like the majority rules. Its true that most of the time common sense is usually correct and reliable. However there have been moments in history in which common sense has been found mistaken and seems to turn the world upside down. Horrible things have happened to people because they were thought as crazy or that their words were absurd and impossible. How many truths have we lost throughout the ages because of our common sense.
Now I am not saying that relying on our common sense is not reasonable but this is just something to think about. Really. I wonder what have we done in the past. Could we have killed the only person who would have given us the answer to everything or perhaps burned the only proof of our true purpose to our being? Have we had more than one chance to reveal the truth and missed it? Will we have another chance at it?
The more I think of this the more it bothers me. I really want to know. Even if I looked through history books and help find lost scripts the answer would be incomplete. History is so fragile. One day all proof of our history could be turned to ash and all that could be left are our unreliable memories. How can such questions be found? Maybe all this has happened before and we are just victims of this never ending cycle. Who knows? Maybe someone knew, But how can we know that now?
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I really like your blog!
Our commonsense is based upon a history that is incomplete. Like you said we have lost so much of our history, and who is to say that our "commonsense" might not be different if we knew all of our history? I think this makes commonsense more subjective as it is vulnerable to change depending upon the context. Using these points, commonsense does not seem to be something that exists concretely and separately from individual context because it is vulnerable to change
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