Merging knowledge and being avoids relativism only if a single unified human subject exists

Evidence

The original phrase is universale soggettivo which is slightly ambiguous, as it could also be translated “subjective universal”. The basic sense however would be the same: viz. that the unity of knowledge and being demanded by the sub-jectivists can only avoid the pitfalls of arbitrary relativism when there is a single knowing subject and an undivided human race so that knowledge becomes the same for all. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2751

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the concept of universale soggettivo (‘subjective universal’) and its philosophical condition: a single knowing subject prevents arbitrary relativism.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s toolkit on how hegemonic knowledge claims presuppose a unified subject — relevant for reading Orientalism’s critique of a universal knowing subject. — connects to: A unified human We-subject is impossible; conflict grounds being-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1041; German idealism legitimated knowledge by unifying truth and justice in a single subject — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 268