Religion and common sense cannot form intellectual orders without coercion

Evidence

Religion and common sense cannot constitute an intellectual order, because they cannot be reduced to unity and coherence even within an individual consciousness, let alone collective consciousness. Or rather they cannot be so reduced “freely”—for this may be done by “authoritarian” means, and indeed within limits this has been done in the past. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1178

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘intellectual order’ as requiring free unity/coherence — their absence is what marks religion and common sense as non-philosophy.
• XREF: The free-vs-authoritarian unity distinction sets up hegemony’s central contrast with domination, which later exile/statelessness readings build on.