Science had to destroy traditional good sense to create a new one

Evidence

This quotation can serve to indicate how the terms good sense and common sense are used ambiguously: as “philosophy”, as a specific mode of thought with a certain content of beliefs and opinions, and as an attitude of amiable indulgence, though at the same time contemptuous, towards anything abstruse and ingenious. It was therefore necessary for science to kill a particular form of traditional good sense, in order to create a “new” good sense. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1515

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1515
• XREF: connects to: Today’s common-sense mechanical reality was unnatural and contested in the 1600s — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 760; Science’s claim to exclusive truth paradoxically enabled its own destructiveness; European science absorbed other knowledge systems while their competitors were destroyed