Abstract
Based on a confrontation of the Hegelian and Bourdieu concepts of «practical sense», this paper aims to analyse the similarities of Hegelian sittliche Gesinnung and Bourdieusian habitus in the conceptual function they assume as well as in the issues they claim to meet. This comparison leads yet to highlight what fundamentally distinguishes these views on practical sense in terms of the normativity they bear, and which ultimately rests on the different concept about the nature of the rationality that should be recognised to practice.