What's the difference between "good sense" (Pascal's "bon sens") and "common sense"?
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2Not sure if bon sens is a specific concept in Pascal's writings, but if we go by the dictionary "bon sens" is just equivalent to "common sense".– armandCommented Feb 5 at 1:52
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looks like you want to trace the history of usage rather than philsosophy? mayb eif yo unarrowed it into something it would look a lot better :) but then i am unintersted in pascal– user71399Commented Feb 5 at 3:13
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1@armand Italian distinguishes them, too: buon senso vs. senso comune. Is "common sense" also "good sense" or vice versa? Also, in scholastic philosophy, sensus comunis is the nexus of all sense data, where visual, auditory, etc., data come together.– GeremiaCommented Feb 5 at 17:41
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See here: "Le bon sens renvoie à Descartes et au début du Discours de la méthode [refers to Descartes and the beginning of] .... La référence se comprend sans peine, puisque Pascal, non sans ironie, considère Descartes comme le « docteur de la raison »."– Mauro ALLEGRANZACommented Feb 6 at 8:42
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Discourse: "Le bon sens is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. "– Mauro ALLEGRANZACommented Feb 6 at 8:43
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