Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World

Robert Curry

Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA
Country
United States
Published
10 October 2019
Pages
112
ISBN
9781641770743

Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World

Robert Curry

Common sense is the foundation of thinking and of human action. It is the indispensable basis for making our way in the world as individuals and in community with others, and the starting point for finding truth and building scientific knowledge. The philosophy of common-sense realism deeply informed the American Founders’ vision for a self-governing people, in a society where leaders and average citizens share essentially the same understanding of reality-of what simply makes sense.

But today our confidence in the value and reliability of common sense has been badly shaken. Deep thinkers have rejected it. Elites have learned to disdain it. We’re told that we have moved into a more sophisticated world, where common sense is passe and the very concept of truth is outmoded. Indeed, the Oxford Dictionaries selected post-truth as the Word of the Year for 2016.

Do we actually live in a post-truth reality? Have we moved beyond common sense? Can we?

In this book, Robert Curry exposes the absurdity of the attacks on common sense, and demonstrates that we still live and move in the realm of common sense in our every waking moment. Drawing from philosophy and literature, science and psychiatry, Reclaiming Common Sense helps us regain our trust in the superpower we all have in common, while reminding us that we cannot get along without it.

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