Common sense is the uncritical, unconscious worldview common to an epoch

Evidence

This last term is used by Gramsci to mean the uncritical and largely unconscious way of perceiving and understanding the world that has become “common” in any given epoch. (Correspondingly he uses the phrase “good sense” to mean the practical, but not necessarily rational or scientific attitude that in English is usually called common sense.) The critique of “common sense” and that of “the philosophy of the philosophers” are therefore complementary aspects of a single ideological struggle. This struggle must be waged, as Gramsci himself wages it, with the utmost intensity, but its ultimate resolution lies on another terrain, that of “revolutionising praxis”, which alone can determine the forms of thought appropriate to the new age. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1165

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise definition of ‘common sense’ versus ‘good sense’ — a core toolkit distinction the Islamophobia corpus builds theory on.
• XREF: Common sense as the taken-for-granted ideational terrain is exactly what later ‘everyday Islamophobia’ and Orientalism-as-hegemony readings operate on. — connects to: Consciousness is contradictory and common sense is not unified; Common sense is society’s incoherent assumptions while good sense is practical empirical judgment; Common sense is a fragmentary, incoherent, socially-positioned ‘folklore of philosophy’ (+13 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that ideology critique alone cannot resolve the struggle — only revolutionising praxis can fix forms of thought — is a paradigm-mechanism point about where change actually happens that resists compression.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1165

Broader Connections

• Common sense is a fragmentary, incoherent, socially-positioned ‘folklore of philosophy’ #expands (0.90)
• Common sense is society’s incoherent assumptions while good sense is practical empirical judgment #qualifies (0.85)
• Common sense is a historical construct with changing ideological contents. #expands (0.85)
• Common sense is the sedimented residue of past philosophies, continually transforming. #qualifies (0.85)
• Common sense has a content and a history despite feeling natural and timeless. #expands (0.85)
• Common sense can be worked upon to transform it into conscious class struggle #expands (0.80)
• Common sense is historical and plural, with religion as only one fragment of it #expands (0.80)
• Culture and common sense are a contested terrain for building popular hegemony #expands (0.80)
• Uncritical worldviews make a single personality a composite of many historical layers #exemplifies (0.75)
• Common sense is ambiguous and conservative, resisting new truths #expands (0.75)