Every person sustains or modifies a conception of the world.
Evidence
There is no human activity from which every form of intellectual participation can be excluded: homo faber cannot be separated from homo sapiens . 7 Each man, finally, outside his professional activity, carries on some form of intellectual activity, that is, he is a “philosopher”, an artist, a man of taste, he participates in a particular conception of the world, has a conscious line of moral conduct, and therefore contributes to sustain a conception of the world or to modify it, that is, to bring into being new modes of thought. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 267
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- DEFINE: Defines the minimal intellectual activity present in everyone: participation in a worldview with moral implications.
- SEED: Angle: how everyday ‘non-intellectual’ practice — consumption of media, dress, social media speech — constitutes participation in sustaining or modifying a worldview, relevant to how Islamophobic common sense is reproduced daily.
Related
- Everyone is an intellectual insofar as all thought sustains a worldview (similarity 0.82)
- Everyone possesses intellectual activity; intellectuals are a trained social stratum, not a separate species (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Every people’s thinking and acting rests on an underlying philosophy
#corroborates(0.95) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 148