Scottish common sense realism

It's an obscure school of thought.

And that obscure school of thought that hung as a counterweight to the Enlightenment would be the Scottish common sense realism precept.

So what is that? So what is Scottish common sense realism? It's the Scottish school of common sense.

So the genesis of the Scottish school of common sense was a clinical response, again, to the skepticism that the Enlightenment provided.

The main thinkers involved in this kind of rebuttal to the Enlightenment were people like Thomas Reed, Adam Ferguson, James Beattie, DeGaulle Stewart.

Those men, these Scottish thinkers, they saw a flaw in the Enlightenment.

They identified a flaw back then, and you can even see this in modern liberalism.

The flaw that these men observed was that the Enlightenment hung all of its thought into skepticism.

It's as if simply recognizing a truth is enough without taking the next step to actually act on it.

Thomas Reid, the 18th century Scottish philosopher and founder of Scottish Common Sense Realism, believe that when the core evidence of reality is clear, our role isn't endless philosophical doubt, but thoughtful, confident action.

In any truly valid faith, faith isn't about blindly jumping into the dark.

It's about the soul's smart and brave reasoning, like modus ponens.