| Summary: | "The philosophy of common sense had its origin in ancient Greece, its most conspicuous expositor during antiquity being Aristotle. In modern times its development has been due almost entirely to the English philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries, of whom Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Bentham are the chief representatives, the so-called "common sense" metaphysic of Reid and Hamilton embodying a doctrine less worthy of such a designation than that of their profounder predecessors, Berkeley and Hume. The present work aims to be a contribution to the English school of philosophy. The panacea I propose is common sense, and I claim that it will cure all the ills which can be cured by any means whatever, and that it offers a complete solution of the problem of happiness. Moreover I claim that there is no other solution, and that the many substitutes which have been proposed and practised will prove in the future, as they have in the past, to be delusions"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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