From the Prison Notebooks (Entry #2 4/13/17)

From the Prison Notebooks by Gramsci and Foucault discusses the hegemony between religion and philosophy. His article points out that philosophy is the “...the criticism and superseding of religion and ‘common sense’.” (62) Religion relies on its authoritative control over people’s lives and is upheld by the politics that bridge its relationship to power. It divides the people of a “higher” social status (the intellectuals) and “lower” social status (the ‘simple’/poor).

Philosophy challenges these distinctions, not adhering to the norms set by Catholicism. There are many different world views and arguments that could be debated and reinterpreted with several meanings that change over time as culture develops, not the often singular and concrete explanations offered through religion.