Practitioners escape dogmas of their age better than occasional philosophers do

Evidence

In reality the occasional “philosopher” can succeed only with difficulty in making abstractions from the currents dominant in his age and from interpretations of a certain conception of the world that have become dogmatic (etc.). As a scientist of politics on the other hand he feels himself free from these idols of his age and of his group and treats the same conception with more immediacy and with total originality; he penetrates to its heart and develops it in a vital way. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1433

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Most philosophy has systematically masked rather than faced human ambiguity; Existentialism holds that philosophy grows out of concrete lived experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 54; Micro-level practice sustains critique when rational detachment cannot — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 533
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Most philosophy has systematically masked rather than faced human ambiguity; Existentialism holds that philosophy grows out of concrete lived experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 54; Micro-level practice sustains critique when rational detachment cannot — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 533