Common sense is historical and plural, with religion as only one fragment of it

Evidence

Philosophy is intellectual order, which neither religion nor common sense can be. It is to be observed that religion and common sense do not coincide either, but that religion is an element of fragmented common sense. Moreover common sense is a collective noun, like religion: there is not just one common sense, for that too is a product of history and a part of the historical process. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1175

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Key vocabulary: common sense as a scattered, historical collective noun — not a universal or fixed faculty.
• XREF: Feeds into Islamophobia readings on ‘common sense’ racism as historically constructed and historically changeable.

Related

• Common sense is contradictory and only validates truths by their historical spread (similarity 0.87)
• Common sense is an uncritically absorbed, fragmentary folklore of philosophy, not a coherent system. (similarity 0.86)
• Common sense is the uncritical, unconscious worldview common to an epoch (similarity 0.85)
• Common sense is the sediment of past philosophy, not fixed belief (similarity 0.84)
• Common sense layers sedimented historical beliefs with crude realistic elements, remaining acritical (similarity 0.83)
• Philosophy’s history must include mass worldviews and ruling groups, not just philosophers (similarity 0.83)
• Common sense is class-bound folklore that sedimented philosophies leave behind (similarity 0.83)
• Common sense is the fragmentary, incoherent philosophy of non-philosophers tied to their social class (similarity 0.82)
• Common sense merits only a limited empirical trust, not philosophical authority. (similarity 0.82)
• Common sense is society’s incoherent assumptions while good sense is practical empirical judgment (similarity 0.81)
• Common sense is a chaotic aggregate allowing any claim to be confirmed (similarity 0.81)
• Philosophy and history are indivisible, forming a single bloc (similarity 0.81)
• Philosophy and common sense differ in degree, not kind (similarity 0.80)
• Any single religion contains multiple contradictory class-specific versions (similarity 0.80)
• Dialectical thinking contradicts vulgar common sense’s demand for certainties. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Common sense is a historical construct with changing ideological contents. #corroborates (0.95)
• Common sense has a content and a history despite feeling natural and timeless. #corroborates (0.92) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 892