Philosophy’s history must include mass worldviews and ruling groups, not just philosophers

Evidence

From our point of view, studying the history and the logic of the various philosophers’ philosophies is not enough. At least as a methodological guide-line, attention should be drawn to the other parts of the history of philosophy; to the conceptions of the world held by the great masses, to those of the most restricted ruling (or intellectual) groups, and finally to the links between these various cultural complexes and the philosophy of the philosophers. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1238

Categorization

• XREF: Direct precursor to the concept of common sense and the intellectual/ideological terrain that Islamophobia theory needs. — connects to: Philosophers have historically served to justify established authority; All philosophical thought, however abstract, is constituted from historical material — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 755