The Phenomenon of Common Sense and the Thinking of Alfred Schutz

This article deconstructs Alfred Schutz's thinking to its ownmost (Wesen) meaning: the rendition of the phenomenon of common sense. It discerns the exposition of the meaning of common sense as the foundational movement (alpha rho chi eta kappa iota eta sigma epsilon omega sigma) that runs through the course of Schutz's constitutive phenomenology of the natural attitude. It predicates this thesis on Schutz's elucidation of the phenomena of the life-world (Lebenswelt), typification and common sense as a single phenomenon: kappa omicron iota nu eta pi rho alpha xi iota sigma (common praxis). The analysis includes hermeneutic-phenomenological considerations. It proposes to enhance the interpretability of Schutz's thinking and its availability to the human sciences.

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This article deconstructs Alfred Schutz's thinking to focus on the essence of common sense as a phenomenon. It highlights the foundational importance of common sense in Schutz's constitutive phenomenology of the natural attitude. By presenting life-world, typification, and common sense as a unified phenomenon of common praxis, Schutz's interpretation of common sense is further expanded and made accessible to the human sciences through hermeneutic-phenomenological considerations.