“The conflict between philosophy and common sense is almost entirely modern. Under the educational institutions of antiquity and the Middle Ages, the great mass of commonsense individuals in the populations were not instructed by the philosophy that then existed; today, however, with going o college or university routine for so many and with current philosophical books available to so many, the situation is otherwise. The commonsense minds of many are corrupted and turned against themselves by philosophical doctrines that urge them to renounce their common sense.”
—Mortimer J Adler, Intellect: Mind Over Matter (New York: Collier Books, 1990), 81
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