1/9/2024 0 Comments Hegalian dialecticPlato, in his writings, places different emphases on the term dialectic. For him, dialectic ( dialektike) is the art of defining ‘Ideas’ and the method of determining their interrelationship in the light of a single principle. Lato, in effect, uses dialectic to conflate logic and metaphysics. In this sense it fits closely to the Greek root of the term, which means to discourse or to converse. Socratic dialectic simply refers to the conversational method of argument, which Socrates embraced. Indeed, dialectical thinking is integral to Marxism in the development of a materialist critique.Ĭentral to modern (since Hegel) dialectical thinking is the idea of the resolution of contradictions through synthesis.ĭialectics considers all phenomena as being in movement, in process of perpetual change. Marx adopted and developed the term in his critique of Hegel and in his subsequent analyses of the State and of capitalism. This idea was central to Hegel’s objective idealism and dialectics came to be transformed into a theory of evolution and universal relations. With the development of German idealism in the 19th century dialectics, became extended to refer not just to contradictions in discussion but to contradictions in reality. This idea of dialectic as rational and as engaging contradictions was at the heart of most usages of the term until the 19th century. The general medieval use of the term was to refer to formal reasoning. Originally (in Greek philosophy), dialectics was the art of knowing truth by uncovering the contradictions in reasoning of one’s adversary.
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