Abstract. The topic of the present article is the destruction of the common sense
tradition linked to the urbanity of philosophy, which had deep roots both in the European
and Hungarian traditions. This destruction was based on Hegelian ideas by János Erdélyi
as an argument of the greatest philosophical controversy of the Hungarian philosophical
life in the 1850s. In Erdélyi’s argumentation, the turn from the supposed urbanity
to the supposed rurality of the common sense has a fundamental role. The idea of the
rurality of the common sense has an influence on the Hungarian intellectual history
of the next centuries, as well.
