ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to clarify the role of common sense in decision-making. It proposes a theoretical framework that provides the regulative ideals in developing a common sense intuitive decision-making model that links the first principle of practical reasoning, common sense, practical judgment, modes of responsibility and moral virtues. The chapter essentially argues that common sense conviction will remain one of the basis tenets of decision-making and ought to be considered as the basis for practical judgment in arriving at sensible decisions. It presents the role of common sense and practical judgment in decision-making as an integral part of sound judgment. The chapter provides two examples from social and moral psychology to illustrate a common sense intuitive approach. The first example deals with the controversy between the situationist social psychology and a virtue ethics moral psychology on the explanation of human behavior and decision-making. The second example illustrates that virtues as interior dispositions flourish especially in adverse situations.
