A philosophy of praxis begins by criticizing common sense while building on it

Evidence

A philosophy of praxis 399 cannot but present itself at the outset in a polemical and critical guise, as superseding the existing mode of thinking and existing concrete thought (the existing cultural world). First of all, therefore, it must be a criticism of “common sense”, basing itself initially, however, on common sense in order to demonstrate that “everyone” is a philosopher and that it is not a question of introducing from scratch a scientific form of thought into everyone’s individual life, but of renovating and making “critical” an already existing activity. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1191

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Establishes that everyone is a philosopher and that new thought must supersede rather than replace existing common sense.
• XREF: This anti-elitist grounding of theory in popular practice is the scaffolding that later Islamophobia critique will implicitly assume.

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• Philosophy works by replacing one common sense with another aligned to the ruling group (similarity 0.87)
• Philosophy of praxis elevates the masses rather than preserves their common sense. (similarity 0.87)
• Mass philosophy must start from common sense and take polemical form (similarity 0.86)
• A philosophy can exist implicitly inside practical aphorisms (similarity 0.84)
• Philosophy’s history must include mass worldviews and ruling groups, not just philosophers (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis links theory inseparably to practice and action (similarity 0.83)
• Philosophy instruction must progress from common sense through religion to systems (similarity 0.83)
• Philosophy and common sense differ in degree, not kind (similarity 0.83)
• The philosophy of praxis began as scattered aphorisms encoding a full worldview (similarity 0.82)
• Philosophy becomes historically true by diffusing into the popular mentality. (similarity 0.82)
• Common sense merits only a limited empirical trust, not philosophical authority. (similarity 0.81)
• Common sense is the uncritical, unconscious worldview common to an epoch (similarity 0.80)
• Philosophers have historically served to justify established authority (similarity 0.80)
• Marxist theory has itself ossified into the popular prejudice it critiqued (similarity 0.80)
• Philosophical elaboration must be performed within the history of philosophy (similarity 0.80)