AN EXPOSITORY ARTICLE
Annicalou Cruz Tañaquin
III- Ernest Rutherford
III- Ernest Rutherford
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- Buddha
Common sense, a philosophy that is always misunderstood, is just a simple idea that many of us cannot comprehend. It is defined philosophically with two meanings; a sense of things being common to other things and a sense of things common to humanity.
If we analyze, common sense is referred to as a phrase which means- an idea most people agree on. In this, they use their common understanding. Some people use the phrase to resort to their beliefs and propositions which in their own point of view is true and accepted. Most of us don’t rely on scientific ideology instead, we just believe what we think is true.
Many philosophers have different outlooks on the common sense. Like Aristotle and Ibn Sina they believe that it is a state where all your senses come together to become one. Locke and the Empiricists, they define it as the sense of things in common between disparate impressions.
In addition to that, there is a pamphlet by Thomas Paine entitled Common Sense. Here, Paine tackles about his arguments about the British rule despite the independence of their country. As I understood it he is fighting for the rights of American because he believes that the freedom of their country. For him it is a native idea that freedom is the condition of them being politically free but as he sees it, still their territory is under the British Monarchy.
To sum it all up, common sense is just an idea, an opinion there is no such thing as an average common sense- wherein everybody should follow this and that. Common sense is purely a point of view, each one of us has his own common sense and we need to respect it. We don’t have the right to tell someone he has no common sense for people in this world think differently and act differently, and we need to understand that.
- Buddha
Common sense, a philosophy that is always misunderstood, is just a simple idea that many of us cannot comprehend. It is defined philosophically with two meanings; a sense of things being common to other things and a sense of things common to humanity.
If we analyze, common sense is referred to as a phrase which means- an idea most people agree on. In this, they use their common understanding. Some people use the phrase to resort to their beliefs and propositions which in their own point of view is true and accepted. Most of us don’t rely on scientific ideology instead, we just believe what we think is true.
Many philosophers have different outlooks on the common sense. Like Aristotle and Ibn Sina they believe that it is a state where all your senses come together to become one. Locke and the Empiricists, they define it as the sense of things in common between disparate impressions.
In addition to that, there is a pamphlet by Thomas Paine entitled Common Sense. Here, Paine tackles about his arguments about the British rule despite the independence of their country. As I understood it he is fighting for the rights of American because he believes that the freedom of their country. For him it is a native idea that freedom is the condition of them being politically free but as he sees it, still their territory is under the British Monarchy.
To sum it all up, common sense is just an idea, an opinion there is no such thing as an average common sense- wherein everybody should follow this and that. Common sense is purely a point of view, each one of us has his own common sense and we need to respect it. We don’t have the right to tell someone he has no common sense for people in this world think differently and act differently, and we need to understand that.
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