Common Sense

What is this to you in a day to day basis?

From Aristotle:

According to Aristotle, the common sense (Sensus communis) is an actual power of inner sensation (as opposed to the external five senses (Five wits)) whereby the various objects of the external senses (color for sight, sound for hearing, etc.) are united and judged,[3] such that what one senses by "common sense" is the substance (or existing thing) in which the various attributes inhere (so, for example, a sheep is able to sense a wolf, not just the color of its fur, the sound of its howl, its odor, and other sensible attributes.) It was not, unlike later developments, considered to be on the level of rationality, which properly did not exist in the lower animals, but only in man; this irrational character was because animals not possessing rationality nevertheless required the use of the common sense in order to sense, for example, the difference between this or that thing, and not merely the pleasure and pain of various disparate sensations.[4] This also contributes to the understanding held by the Scholastics that when one senses, one senses something, and not just a diversity of sensible phenomena.

Common sense, in this view, differs from later views in that it is concerned with the way one receives sensation, and not with belief, or wisdom held by many; accordingly, it is "common", not in the sense of being shared among individuals, or being a genus of the different external senses, but inasmuch as it is a principle which governs the activity of the external senses.[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_sense<BR>
from the site above.

Well I think primal instincts are far different to what we refer to as 'common sense' these days 😛

I for one don't really believe there's any 'common sense' because we are all different people who have different sets of standards and morales. What I believe in maybe very different to what others believe in thus what I condone to be the norm may be an abomination. Does this common sense also change with time? The things we learnt ten years ago, do they still apply to us in the present and will they affect us in the future?

Dictionary defines it as Good judgement in a practical situation and I agree when it comes to more immediate judgement calls. "Oh look there's a speeding truck! Better not cross the road now!". But is that common sense or just awareness and self preservation? On a more complex level and just for the sake for an example a guy is going after a girl who's already in a relationship. It might be common sense as some would say to leave it alone but others would say go for it but who really is right and who's wrong?

Society as a whole impose standards and I think this is where common sense comes from. I'm not saying it's a bad thing seeing there are some radical individuals, good ones and bad ones. I mean I looked at the picture I laughed because it's so silly but it gets you thinking as to why it's silly? We have all been conditioned and seeing something so out of the ordinary isn't socially accepted and therefore not common?

Anyway my brain is going a bit funny again so I shall watch some more movies.

a gift bestowed upon men, forgotten by women

When you ask yourself what would most people do or what the average person would do, then you are trying to use common sense. I guess the logic here is that if "everyone" does it and has always done it that way, then that way must be correct and we all should do the

People who use common sense correcly will always come up with solutions quickly and they are good most of the time.

However using common sense too much can make us unable to see and appreciate other possibilities.

Too much common sense = lack of perspective