Mass philosophy must start from common sense and take polemical form

Evidence

Hence the necessity, in an exposition of the philosophy of praxis, of a polemic with traditional philosophies. Indeed, because by its nature it tends towards being a mass philosophy, the philosophy of praxis can only be conceived in a polemical form and in the form of a perpetual struggle. None the less the starting point must always be that common sense which is the spontaneous philosophy of the multitude and which has to be made ideologically coherent. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1506

Indeed, because by its nature it tends towards being a mass philosophy, the philosophy of praxis can only be conceived in a polemical form and in the form of a perpetual struggle. None the less the starting point must always be that common sense which is the spontaneous philosophy of the multitude and which has to be made ideologically coherent. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1506

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the philosophy of praxis method: polemic outward, but always starting from common sense.
• XREF: This is the core mechanism for later readings on how hegemonic common-sense assumptions get constructed and contested. — connects to: Philosophy must adopt barbarism’s own brutal style to oppose barbarism exactly — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1328; Philosophy must tear through social veils by open thinking, not pure method. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2265; Philosophy instruction must progress from common sense through religion to systems — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1520
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1506