An epoch’s philosophy is a combination, not any single thinker’s system

Evidence

The philosophy of an age is not the philosophy of this or that philosopher, of this or that group of intellectuals, of this or that broad section of the popular masses. It is a process of combination of all these elements, which culminates in an overall trend, in which the culmination becomes a norm of collective action and becomes concrete and complete (integral) “history”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1239

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines how ‘philosophy of an age’ works as an aggregated, combined process — distinct from individual philosopher’s systems.