Notational

Every time science, philosophy and good sense come together it is inevitable that good sense should take itself for a science and a philosophy…Good sense essentially distributes or repartitions: ‘on the one hand’ and ‘on the other hand’ are the characteristic formulae of its false profundity or platitude. It distributes things. It is obvious, however, that not every distribution flows from good sense: there are distributions inspired by madness, mad repartitions. Perhaps good sense even presupposes madness in order to come after and correct what madness there is in any proper distribution. A distribution is in conformity with good sense when it tends to banish difference from the distributed…Good sense is by nature eschatological, the prophet of a final compensation and homogenization…Good sense is the ideology of the middle classes who recognize themselves in equality as an abstract product. It dreams less of acting than of constitution a natural milieu…