From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!uwvax!myers
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Title: personal philosophies
Article-I.D.: uwvax.827
Posted: Sat Apr 16 20:27:44 1983
Received: Mon Apr 18 10:19:50 1983
References: dciem.221


Truth and Beauty has had its day, how about the relation of individuals to
philosophy?  (call for comments)

	Philosophies in general do not in fact exist.  Various philosophies
	or conceptions of the world exist, and one always makes a choice
	between them.  How is this choice made?  Is it merely an intellectual
	event, or is it something more complex?  And is it not frequently the
	case that there is a contradiction between one's intellectual choice
	and one's mode of conduct?  Which therefore would be the real
	conception of the world: that logically affirmed as an intellectual
	choice?  or that which emerges from the real activity of each man
	, which is implicit in his mode of action?  And since all action is
	political, can one not say that the real philosophy of each man is
	contained in its entirety in his political action?

			from "Selections from the Prison Notebooks"
			by   Antonio Gramsci