Phenomenological approach to "Psychopatology commun sense"

Abstract

The title "Psychopathology of common sense" may seem strange. What meaning can belong to the disorder of what is apparently a banal ability? However, as often happens in human life, the most difficult problems of human life are in things that are self-evident. The expression common sense is only inadequately translated as "healthy human understanding" (Menschenverstand). What is meant by this? A well-known dictionary defines it as follows: "practical understanding; ability to see and take things in their correct way; healthy judgment; Ordinary mental capacity. That is, an understanding directed at practice, the ability to see things in their "correct light", is considered the most essential, while the healthy faculty of judgment is taken as normality per se.