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Common Sense

From a 1925 essay about common sense by GE Moore and the thinking of Wittgenstein, to ideas in politics today, Matthew Sweet and guests debate what 'common sense' means.

In 1925 the philosopher GE Moore wrote a Defence of Common Sense which argued against scepticism and nihilism and tried to assert facts which were "common sense". But how do we understand common sense now, what does common sense politics look like and do we have a "common" understanding ? Matthew Sweet's guests are the philosopher Dr Rachel Wiseman, the politician Anne Widdecombe, the historian of emotion Dr Tiffany Watt Smith and the journalist and lecturer on postcolonial culture Dr Sarah Jilani.

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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57 minutes

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Next Friday 21:00

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