Philosophical truths are historically conditioned yet avoid relativism.

Evidence

To think of a philosophical affirmation as true in a particular historical period (that is, as the necessary and inseparable expression of a particular historical action, of a particular praxis) but as superseded and rendered “vain” in a succeeding period, without however falling into scepticism and moral and ideological relativism, in other words to see philosophy as historicity, is quite an arduous and difficult mental operation. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1552

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: This is Gramsci’s core definition of philosophy as historicity — the concept that later Islamophobia readings (Orientalism’s historicism, construction of the Other) will presuppose.
• XREF: Connects directly to Said’s Orientalism and the idea of knowledge as historically situated rather than timeless.

Related

• Philosophy becomes historically true by diffusing into the popular mentality. (similarity 0.86)
• Philosophy’s history must include mass worldviews and ruling groups, not just philosophers (similarity 0.86)
• Every worldview claiming eternal truth is actually historically provisional. (similarity 0.85)
• Philosophical elaboration must be performed within the history of philosophy (similarity 0.85)
• A philosophy becomes historical and living only through contact with the simple (similarity 0.84)
• Philosophy and history are indivisible, forming a single bloc (similarity 0.84)
• A philosophy’s historical worth is its practical effect on society (similarity 0.84)
• Separating philosophy from history and politics reduces it to metaphysics (similarity 0.84)
• The dialectic only functions when philosophy of praxis stands as an integral philosophy. (similarity 0.83)
• Metaphysics is any assertion of extra-historical abstract universal truth. (similarity 0.83)
• Philosophy of praxis must be understood as historical methodology. (similarity 0.83)
• Every prior philosophy expressed social contradictions without consciously knowing them (similarity 0.82)
• Past philosophical systems remain historically valid even after being superseded (similarity 0.82)
• A rational, historicist will grounded in objective necessity grounds philosophy (similarity 0.81)
• A philosophy’s intellectual sources do not constitute its essential content (similarity 0.81)