Universal moral maxims serve a cosmopolitan intellectual stratum’s civilizing project

Evidence

Kant’s maxim is connected with his time, with the cosmopolitan enlightenment and the critical conception of the author. In brief, it is linked to the philosophy of the intellectuals as a cosmopolitan stratum. Therefore the agent is the bearer of the “similar conditions” and indeed their creator. That is, he “must” act according to a “model” which he would like to see diffused among all mankind, according to a type of civilisation for whose coming he is working or for whose preservation he is “resisting” the forces that threaten its disintegration. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1331

What one can say is that Kant’s maxim is connected with his time, with the cosmopolitan enlightenment and the critical conception of the author. In brief, it is linked to the philosophy of the intellectuals as a cosmopolitan stratum. Therefore the agent is the bearer of the “similar conditions” and indeed their creator. That is, he “must” act according to a “model” which he would like to see diffused among all mankind, according to a type of civilisation for whose coming he is working or for whose preservation he is “resisting” the forces that threaten its disintegration. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1331

Categorization

• XREF: The intellectual as bearer/creator of universal norms is Gramsci’s proto-organic-intellectual point; it carries directly into how the Islamophobia field treats academics and policymakers as producers of hegemonic representations. — connects to: The Institut’s scholarly solidarity deliberately modeled an ideal future brotherly society — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 161
• SEED: Essay angle: how ‘universal’ humanitarian norms function as the missionary arm of a specific class stratum’s civilizational self-understanding—applied to modern ‘values-based’ foreign policy toward Muslim-majority states.
• DEFINE: Defines universalism as the ethos of a specific stratum (cosmopolitan intellectuals) presented as natural law.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1331