Common sense

The spontaneous attitudes brought about in a person by his experience of every day life, based on practical activity and commonly accepted morality, may be said to comprise common sense. Because it does not rise beyond this immediate practical relationship with the world, common sense will then vary with circumstances and has been variously held: to prove the existence of God; to prove that God cannot exist; to be equivalent to personal utility or advantage in a given situation. However, a definition of common sense as the inborn principle in the human spirit which makes experience possible, leads to the belief that it is through common sense that man derives his belief in God and in the existence of reality.