Reclaiming Common Sense To Find The Common Good .....

[MMC]

Robert Curry's latest book, 'Reclaiming Common Sense,' compellingly demonstrates that our dysfunctional politics are a result of elite consensus increasingly losing touch with reality.


The idea of the common good has been making a comeback in our political discourse. While the left is embroiled in debates over which interest group should be given the keys to political power, small enclaves on the right are rediscovering the common good as an end of political life.


Although this project has met cries of Leninism and collectivism, reorienting our politics around the common good is undoubtedly a healthy impulse. The belief that politics exists to secure the good of the nation as a whole, after all, is a return to the way Americans used to think and talk about politics.


In Federalist 10 Publius called “the public good,” or common good, one of the “great object[s] to which our inquiries are directed.” The Anti-Federalist Brutus wrote in his second letter that the “common good…is the end of civil government.” Although vast differences existed between the two sides on the question of ratifying the Constitution, they both agreed that the purpose of politics was to secure the common good of the nation.


What has gone unaddressed by proponents of the modern common good project is a crucial prerequisite: the metaphysical ground upon which the common good is based.


Drawing from cultural titans such as Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Isiah Berlin, and Albert Einstein, Curry explores the philosophy of common-sense realism that suffuses our founding documents. As Curry argues, common sense is not “the collective opinions of the crowd.” Rather, it is “the shared understanding of the way things really are.” Common sense is “the basis of all human knowledge,” without which human language would be impossible.



Quite simply, common sense means “to be in contact with human reality.” It “makes us rational beings and moral agents” and “enables us to meet the challenges of daily existence as human beings—and also to meet extraordinary challenges.”


Standing in the way of recovering common sense are our political and intellectual elites. Influenced by a toxic brew of romanticism, Hegelianism, progressivism, and postmodernism, the elites’ war against reality, Curry contends, is a direct threat to the perpetuation of republican government. A stultifying political correctness that permeates our universities, media, and government, and the doxxing of public and private figures alike who harbor even the mildest opposition to the elite consensus is clear evidence of the effects of this all-encompassing war.....snip~


https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/01...e-common-good/


What the bottomline comes down to is.....Common Sense is Self Evident Truth. Which the Left is out to destroy.

[nathanbforrest45]

Common sense is in extremely short supply these days.

[MMC]

Common sense is in extremely short supply these days.

The Progressives have been doing all they can to destroy the concept. Their argument is that there are no moral basic truths. Curry and Prager talk about when the change flipped at the beginning of the 19th Century.


Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth on a Post-Truth World: Dennis Prager and Robert Curry

http://townhallreview.com/2019/11/re...-robert-curry/

[MMC]

I think the left is against it due to it being natural. Although, I don't think illiberals can even comprehend common sense in its simplest form.

[nathanbforrest45]

What is Common Sense?

One definition is
Common sense is sound practical judgment concerning everyday matters, or a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge that is shared by nearly all people. The first type of common sense, good sense, can be described as "the knack for seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done".

Common Sense could be as Dr. Spock would say "It's logical"

[Just AnotherPerson]

Common sense says killing people in unjust wars is wrong.
Common sense says Poisoning our air and water is wrong.
Common sense says the corporations living off the backs of the people is wrong.
Common sense says allowing the current administration to go through with an Orwelian lock down is wrong.

If common sense is so common, then how come so few have it?

[MMC]

Common sense says killing people in unjust wars is wrong.
Common sense says Poisoning our air and water is wrong.
Common sense says the corporations living off the backs of the people is wrong.
Common sense says allowing the current administration to go through with an Orwelian lock down is wrong.

If common sense is so common, then how come so few have it?

Standing in the way of recovering common sense are our political and intellectual elites. Influenced by a toxic brew of romanticism, Hegelianism, progressivism, and postmodernism, the elites’ war against reality, Curry contends, is a direct threat to the perpetuation of republican government. A stultifying political correctness that permeates our universities, media, and government, and the doxxing of public and private figures alike who harbor even the mildest opposition to the elite consensus is clear evidence of the effects of this all-encompassing war.....snip~


Of course Common Sense Realism is a bit different than having Common Sense not to put your hand into the fire.

[Just AnotherPerson]

Standing in the way of recovering common sense are our political and intellectual elites. Influenced by a toxic brew of romanticism, Hegelianism, progressivism, and postmodernism, the elites’ war against reality, Curry contends, is a direct threat to the perpetuation of republican government. A stultifying political correctness that permeates our universities, media, and government, and the doxxing of public and private figures alike who harbor even the mildest opposition to the elite consensus is clear evidence of the effects of this all-encompassing war.....snip~


Of course Common Sense Realism is a bit different than having Common Sense not to put your hand into the fire.

Okie dokie.....