Everyday Consciousness of Praxis and its critiqueelements of Critical Theory in A. Sánchez Vázquez

10.2478/bjlp-2023-00000200

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the critique of everyday consciousness of praxis, that has been undertaken by Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (1915 Algeciras, Spain – 2011 Mexico City). The Spanish-Mexican philosopher confronts everyday consciousness of praxis conceptually with emancipatory praxis, detecting with that method two problems of the first: on the one hand, its concrete determination, namely, its immanent pessimism, which fails to grasp the human being in all its importance as a subject of history; and on the other hand, its general conception, which he has determined to be atheoretical and which, in the absence of a reflexive moment, may not nurture an emancipatory praxis. His critique of everyday consciousness of praxis is finally based on three of its concrete determinations: its inherently ‘ingenuous realism’, its ‘objectivism’, and its ‘utilitarianism’.