A philosophy of praxis must critically supersede common sense while starting from 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

• DEFINE: Defines philosophy of praxis as inherently polemical criticism of common sense.
• XREF: connects to: Philosophy instruction must progress from common sense through religion to systems — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1520; Dewey’s pragmatism shaped Ambedkar’s critique of rigid moral rules — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1176; Philosophy is a socio-practical activity uniting thought with action — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2476