<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The topic of the present article is the destruction of the common sense tradition linked to the urbanity of philosophy, which had deep roots both in the European and Hungarian traditions. This destruction was based on Hegelian ideas by János Erdélyi as an argument of the greatest philosophical controversy of the Hungarian philosophical life in the 1850s. In Erdélyi’s argumentation, the turn from the supposed <italic>urbanity</italic> to the supposed <italic>rurality</italic> of the common sense has a fundamental role. The idea of the <italic>rurality</italic> of the common sense has an influence on the Hungarian intellectual history of the next centuries, as well.</p></abstract>

The topic of the present article is the destruction of the common sense tradition linked to the urbanity of philosophy, which had deep roots both in the European and Hungarian traditions. This destruction was based on Hegelian ideas by János Erdélyi as an argument of the greatest philosophical controversy of the Hungarian philosophical life in the 1850s. In Erdélyi’s argumentation, the turn from the supposed urbanity to the supposed rurality of the common sense has a fundamental role. The idea of the rurality of the common sense has an influence on the Hungarian intellectual history of the next centuries, as well.

Ruralization of the (Urbane) Concept of <italic>Sensus Communis</italic> in a 19<sup>th</sup>-century Hungarian Philosophical Controversy

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies

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Ruralization of the (Urbane) Concept of  in a 19-century Hungarian Philosophical Controversy

The topic of the present article is the destruction of the common sense tradition linked to the urbanity of philosophy, which had deep roots both in the...

Ruralization of the (Urbane) Concept of Sensus Communis in a 19^th-century Hungarian Philosophical Controversy

Publié en ligne: 12 mars 2019

Pages: 23 - 40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/auseur-2018-0009

Mots clés
common sense, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gusztáv Szontagh, János Erdélyi, János Hetényi

© 2018 Béla Mester, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Ruralization of the (Urbane) Concept of Sensus Communis in a 19th-century Hungarian Philosophical Controversy

Publié en ligne: 12 mars 2019

Pages: 23 - 40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/auseur-2018-0009

Mots cléscommon sense, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gusztáv Szontagh, János Erdélyi, János Hetényi

© 2018 Béla Mester, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Ruralization of the (Urbane) Concept of Sensus Communis in a 19^th-century Hungarian Philosophical Controversy

Mots clés
common sense, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gusztáv Szontagh, János Erdélyi, János Hetényi