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Bon sens: In philosophy, "bon sens" refers to common sense or good sense. It signifies practical, ordinary reasoning and judgment that is generally accessible to most individuals, serving as a foundation for understanding and navigating everyday experiences and interactions. See also Common sense._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Henri Bergson on Bon sens - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 31 Bon sens/Bergson/Gadamer: The moral motive in the concept of common sense or bon sens has remained effective to this day and distinguishes these concepts from our concept of "common sense". As an example I refer to the beautiful speech that Henri Bergson gave in 1895 on the occasion of the great prize-giving ceremony at the Sorbonne about bon sens(1). His criticism of the abstractions of natural science as well as those of language and legal thought, his stormy appeal to »énergie intérieure d'une intelligence qui se reconquiert a tout moment sur elleméme, éliminant les idéesfaites pour laisser la place libre aux idées qui se font« (88), could be baptized in France in the name of bon sens. Cf. >common sense. Although the definition of this term contained, as is natural, a reference to the senses, Bergson apparently took it for granted that, unlike the senses of the bon sens, the "milieu social". » Tandis que les autres sens nous mettent en rapport avec des choses, le bon senspréside nos relations avec des personnes«(85). He is a kind of genius for practical life, but less a gift than the constant task of »ajustement toujours renouvelé des situations toujours nouvelles«, ea way of adapting the general principles to reality, through which justice is realized, a »tact de la vérité pratique«, eine »rectitude du jugement, qui Vient de la droiture de l'äme« (88). According to Bergson, as the common source of thought and will, the bon sens is a sens social, which avoids the mistakes of scientific dogmatists, who seek social laws, as well as those of metaphysical utopians. (BergsonVsMetaphysics). See >Sensus communis, >Common sense. Gadamer I 32 Science/Hermeneutics/Bergson: Although Bergson also talks about the importance of classical studies for the formation of this bon sens - he sees in them the effort to break the "ice of words" and to discover underneath the free flow of thought (91), he certainly does not pose the opposite question of how far bon sens is necessary to classical studies themselves, i.e. he does not speak of its hermeneutical function. His question is not directed at the sciences at all, but at the independent meaning of bon sens for life. 1. Henri Bergson, Ecrits et paroles I (RM Mossé-Bastide), S. 84ff._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Bergs I Henri Bergson Durée et Simultanéité. À propos de la théorie d’Einstein, Paris 1922 German Edition: Dauer und Gleichzeitigkeit: Über Einsteins Relativitätstheorie Hamburg 2014 Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |