Knowledge and objectivity are only knowable in relation to humanity

Evidence

The idea of “objective” in metaphysical materialism would appear to mean an objectivity that exists even apart from man; but when one affirms that a reality would exist even if man did not, one is either speaking metaphorically or one is falling into a form of mysticism. We know reality only in relation to man, and since man is historical becoming, knowledge and reality are also a becoming and so is objectivity, etc. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1585

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines Gramsci’s historicist ‘objective’ against metaphysical materialism’s absolute objectivity.
• XREF: Directly feeds the Islamophobia toolkit’s construction-of-the-Other theme: knowledge is positional, not from nowhere.

Related

• Unknown reality is a relative historical condition, not a metaphysical unknowable (similarity 0.83)
• Objectivity is constituted in relation to historically situated humanity, not apart from it (similarity 0.83)
• Objectivity is historical and exists only in relation to man. (similarity 0.82)
• Metaphysics is any assertion of extra-historical abstract universal truth. (similarity 0.80)
• Philosophical truths are historically conditioned yet avoid relativism. (similarity 0.80)
• Objective possibility constitutes freedom but requires knowing and wanting (similarity 0.79)
• Objects are studied as social relations, not physical things (similarity 0.79)
• Subjectivity and objectivity form a dialectical unity in knowledge (similarity 0.79)
• Idealism’s failure to prove the Other’s existence collapses into metaphysical realism. (similarity 0.79)
• Prediction acquires objectivity only when tied to a programme of will. (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci rejected any Marxism that separated knowledge from how it is acquired (similarity 0.78)
• Only what humans make can be truly known, since maker and object coincide (similarity 0.78)
• Philosophy’s history must include mass worldviews and ruling groups, not just philosophers (similarity 0.78)
• Feuerbach’s materialism retained a dualism between objective reality and human subjectivity (similarity 0.78)