A CRITIQUE OF PHILOSOPHY AND COMMON SENSE TOWARDS THE RECONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETAL AND HUMAN PARADIGMS

This paper titled a critique of philosophy and common sense towards the reconstruction of societal and human its aimed at carrying out a critical analysis of philosophy and common sense, showing how relevant they can be to each other. It was also the aim of this paper to show if philosophy and common sense have possess positive traits towards society and human. Over time, philosophers such as Aristotle, Descartes, Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore have use the term common sense to mean practical judgment of a thing which is common to everyone. How common or uncommon therefore is common sense? In what sense can common sense be philosophical and in what sense can it not be philosophical? In attempt to answering these questions, the paper adopted the methods of textual analysis and logical articulation. It is a common place knowledge to most times confuse philosophy and commonsense some advocates argue that philosophy does not only begin with commonsense it also end with it. The article upholds and extends beyond this assertion to state incisively that philosophy is more complicated and methodical than commonsense. We argue that very few persons reasoned and think logically as common sense does not use logic per se, rather it veers into logical domain but philosophy always utilizes and relies heavily on logical principles. Philosophy and commonsense are ready tools for societal and human articulations.