Common Worlds, Common Sense, and the Digital Realm

Common Worlds, Common Sense, and the Digital Realm

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• Author: L. M. Sacasas
• Full Title: Common Worlds, Common Sense, and the Digital Realm
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• URL: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/common-worlds-common-sense-and-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Highlights

• “Only the experience of sharing a common human world with others who look at it from different perspectives,” she wrote, “can enable us to see reality in the round and to develop a shared common sense.”
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• Interestingly, for our purposes, Arendt connects loneliness to the loss of a common world. “Loneliness arises when thought is divorced from reality,” she observed, “when the common world has been replaced by the tyranny of coercive logical demands.” Quoting Martin Luther she adds, “‘A lonely man always deduces one thing from the other and thinks everything to the worst.’” Without a common world there is no break on the slide into slavish and despairing ideological consistency.
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