The article examines the relation between the quest for common sense in the realm of political or social science and an influential idea of reconstruction of the Socratic tradition, i.e. recovery of the classical political philosophy. The following steps should be taken in order wholly to understand the matter: first, we must consider the prevalent attitude of the political or social scientists in the post-war American academic discourse that formed the background of the idea; second, the comparison of the two fruitful critiques of that attitude, by Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss respectively, is helpful; third, the particular importance as well as enduring intellectual lure of the Straussian view must be grasped; fourth, we should notice the problem of a putative religious or theological dimension of the commonsensical view that has been lost from consideration for even a couple of centuries; fifth, we must face the very question of the Socratic philosophy and the way Strauss and his disciples has possibly come to the answer. The article can be seen as only a very brief sketch of those issues.