THE NATURE OF COMMON SENSE AND HOW WE CAN USE COMMON SENSE TO RENEW THE WEST

• Authors: Peter A. Redpath
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Since most pressing today on a global scale is to be able to unite religion, philosophy, and science into parts of a coherent civilizational whole, and since the ability to unite a multitude into parts of a coherent whole essentially requires understanding the natures of the things and the way they can or cannot be essentially related, this paper chiefly considers precisely why the modern world has been unable to effect this union. In so doing, it argues that the chief cause of this inability to unite these cultural natures has been because the contemporary world, and the West especially, has lost its understanding of philosophy and science and has intentionally divorced from essential connection to wisdom. Finally, it proposes a common sense way properly to understand these natures, reunite them to wisdom, and revive Western and global civilization.

Keywords

EN

aim; analogy; anarchy; art; body of knowledge; cause; common sense; communication; comprehensive understanding; concept; contemporary; contrary; contrariety; culture; demonstration; demonstrative; disorder; education; equality; emotion; end; enlightened; enlightenment; excellence; existence; explanation; fear; fundamentalistic; genus; God; habit; happiness; harmony; hierarchically ordered; history; hope; human; humanist; inequality; inspiration; inspired; judgment; justice; knowledge; language; leadership; logic; mathematics; memory; metaphysics; modern; multitude; nature; Nietzschean; operational; opposite; order; part; person; philosophy; physical; poetry; power; principle; provocative thought; quality; reality; reason; receptivity; relationship; renaissance; resistance; rhetoric; science; scientism; skeptic; sophist; soul; species; strength; success; system; truth; utopian; West; Western civilization; unity; universe; values; virtue; whole; will; wisdom; wonder; World War

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3: supplement
• Pages: 455-484

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Peter A. Redpath

• Adler–Aquinas Institute, Manitou Springs, CO, USA

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066