Philosophy works by replacing one common sense with another aligned to the ruling group

Evidence

“Common sense” has been treated in various ways. Sometimes it has even been taken as the base of philosophy itself. Alternatively it has been criticised from the point of view of another philosophy. In reality, in either case, the result was to transcend a particular form of common sense and to create another which was closer to the conception of the world of the leading group. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1507

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines how philosophical critique functions as ideological replacement, not neutral transcendence — a key mechanism for the toolkit.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that even critiquing common sense just installs a new common sense closer to the leading group inverts the usual understanding of philosophy as emancipation — genuinely paradigm-shifting for how ideology is understood.
• XREF: connects to: Philosophy’s task is resisting the status quo’s suggestive compulsion; Philosophers have historically served to justify established authority; Official philosophy is reduced to a mental Taylorism serving industry (+7 more)