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  Dialectic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the mid-nineteenth century, the concept of "dialectic" was appropriated by Marx (see, for example, Das Kapital, published in 1867) and Engels and retooled in a non-idealist manner, becoming a crucial notion in their philosophy of dialectical materialism.
Hegel's dialectic, which he usually presented in a threefold manner, was vulgarized by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.
For Hegel, the whole of history is one tremendous dialectic, major stages of which chart a progression from self-alienation as slavery to self-unification and realization as the rational, constitutional state of free and equal citizens.
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 Dialectic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marx wrote: "The mystification which dialectic suffers in Hegel's hands, by no means prevents him from being the first to present its general form of working in a comprehensive and conscious manner.
Marxists view dialectics as a framework for development in which contradiction plays the central role as the source of development.
At the heart of Marxist dialectics is the idea of contradiction, with class struggle playing the central role in social and political life, although Marx does identify other historically important contradictions, such as those between mental and manual labor and town and country.
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 Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Dialectic -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Broadly speaking, a dialectic is an exchange of propositions and counter-propositions resulting in a synthesis of the opposing assertions or at least a qualitative transformation of the direction of the dialogue.
Although Hegel never used such a classification himself, Hegel's dialectic is often described as consisting of three stages: a thesis, an antithesis which contradicts or negates the thesis, and synthesis embodying what is essential to each.
For Hegel, the whole of western history is one tremendous dialectic, the largest moments of which chart a progression from self-alienation as slavery to self-unification and realization as the rational, constitutional state of free and equal citizens.
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 Dialectic - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Broadly speaking, a dialectic is an exchange of propositions (theses) and counter-propositions (antitheses) resulting in a synthesis of the opposing assertions, or at least a qualitative transformation in the direction of the dialogue.
The Hegelian dialectic could not be rigorously applied or defended: for any chosen thesis, the selection of any antithesis, other than the logical negation of the thesis was subjective.
The dialectical approach to the study of history then gave rise to historical materialism, the school of thought exemplified by the works of Marx, Engels, and Lenin.
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 THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER [Free Republic]
To the American Hegelians, education was an effective tool for developing the individual mind to promote "self-activity," or to cultivate the mind to a point at which every individual became entirely aware of his position as a subject in the complex interactions of reality.
Hegelian ideas such as the freedom of man as gained through his acceptance of institutions and the ubiquitous dialectic clash of theses and antitheses formed the basis for Harris's pedagogics.
The dialectical materialists certainly criticize the older materialistic schools, yet this criticism is not aimed against materialism as such, but exclusively at the lack of a dialectical element, and of a "correct" conception of evolution.
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 ACL: The Hegelian Dialectic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Hegelian dialectical method changed the format for deductive reasoning into one in which truth is obtained by pitting truth against a falsehood which leads to a false truth.
The Hegelian dialectic is not a conspiracy theory because the Conspiracy Theory is a fraud.
I argue that the Hegelian political theory is of central import to the discussion between communitarians and libertarians, both in the communitarian criticism of the libertarian — mainly in Michael Sandel's criticism of Rawls — and in the Rawlsian project of a society founded in justice as equality.
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 AMPP: Introduction - Part 2, A Theory, and the Hegelian Dialectic
A central precept of the Hegelian ethic is that people are principally motivated by the desire to receive the approval and recognition of others, and to avoid their disapproval.
For each dialectic, I identify the commonality between the ostensible extremes (undermining the precept of opposition), the intended synthesis, and the solution by which the dialectic trap can be escaped.
Dialectically, ``pro-life'' is the stance that abortion must be prosecuted as first degree homicide except when the child is sure not to survive the pregnancy.
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 IS THE FIBONACCI PROGRESSION ANOTHER WAY OF DEFEATING THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Hegelian Dialectic is the archenemy of the Fibonacci Progression.
The dialectic occurs when the new thought is “invited” to fill the vacuum “between” the two and resolve the called for expectancy.
In contrast to Fibonacci, in simplest numeric terms, the Hegelian dialectic is a process of taking 1 + 1 (thesis-antithesis) and framing a third 1, that third one is then reduced to its polar components (1+1).
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 The Hegelian Dialectic
Frequently used, but seldom explained, and probably not well understood by many writers but, especially among those trying to find their way through the maze of available information, the Hegelian Dialectic is perhaps the most useful tool we have at our disposal for understanding what is happening to us.
The Dialectics of a Dynamic Society.— One of the most dramatic attempts to explain the organization and disorganization of a dynamic society was that made by Karl Marx and the disciples who have followed in his intellectual footsteps.
Marx inverted the Hegelian dialectic from an extremely idealistic philosophy to one based primarily upon the social and economic forces in a changing material world.
www.congregator.net /pages/dialectic.html   (1066 words)

  
 Hegelian Dialectics and Conspiracy
In Hegelian philosophy the conflict of political 'right' and political 'left', or thesis and antithesis in Hegelian terms, is essential to the forward movement of history and historical change itself.
We will also explore the continuation of this dialectic conflict into the last few decades, specifically in China today and show that the purpose is to create a new synthesis, a New World Order along Hegelian lines where the State is Absolute and the individual can find freedom only in blind obedience to the State.
The Hegelian dialectic is being employed to secure and sustain absolute world power and authority to an elite.
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 DFP 1. Introduction
Plato himself regarded dialectic as the supreme philosophical method and the 'coping-stone' of the sciences — using it to designate both the definition of ideas by genus and species (founding logic) and their interconnection in the light of a single principle, the Form of the Good (instituting metaphysics).
In fact the Hegelian dialectic progresses in two basic modes: (α) by bringing out what is implicit, but not explicitly articulated, in some notion or social or conceptual form (what I will term 'teleonomic push'); or (β) by repairing some want, lack or inadequacy in it ('teleological pull').
Hegelian {DPF:24} determinate negation constitutes, then, at once a transformation in the consciousness of the dialectical observer and an expansion of the existingconceptual field.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dialectic
It has always, moreover, connoted special aptitude or acuteness in reasoning, "dialectical skill"; and it was because of this characteristic of Zeno's polemic against the reality of motion or change that this philosopher is said to have been styled by Aristotle the master or founder of dialectic.
In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, however, rational speculation was applied to theology not merely for the purpose of proving the praeambula fidei, but also for the purpose of analysing, illustrating and showing forth the beauty and the suitability of the mysteries of the Christian Faith.
After five or six centuries of fruitful development, under the influence, mainly, of this deductive dialectic, theology has again been drawing, for a century past, abundant and powerful aid from a renewed and increased attention to the historical and exegetical studies that characterized the earlier centuries of Christianity.
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 Hegel's Philosophy of History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Nonetheless, Hegel's commitment to the dialectical progression of time and to the triumphant end of history is taken to be a largely deterministic and ahistorical philosophy.
The reason the Hegelian dialectic is termed "progressive" is because each new thesis represents an advance over the previous thesis, continually until an endpoint (or final goal) is reached.
First, if the dialectic were continuous, the end goal of Reason could never be achieved, and the entire process of history would lapse into what Hegel would call a "bad infinity." History would become meaningless.
dave.burrell.net /hegel.html   (2365 words)

  
 G.W.F. Hegel -- Social and Political Thought [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Although this specific dialectic of struggle occurs only at the earliest stages of self-consciousness, it nonetheless sets up the main problematic for achieving realized self-consciousness—the gaining of self-recognition through the recognition of and by another, through mutual recognition.
The dialectic of self-determination is, for Hegel, inherent in the very structure of freedom, and is the defining feature of Spirit (Geist).
In contractual relations of exchange, what remains identical as the property of the individuals is its value, in respect to which the parties to the contract are on an equal footing, regardless of the qualitative external differences between the things exchanged.
www.iep.utm.edu /h/hegelsoc.htm   (14441 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : Philosophy : The Hegelian Dialectic (Philosophy, Biography) - ...
AllRefer.com - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : Philosophy : The Hegelian Dialectic (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Hegel's absolute idealism envisaged a world-soul that develops out of, and is known through, the dialectical logic.
In this development, known as, one concept (thesis) inevitably generates its opposite (antithesis), and the interaction of these leads to a new concept (synthesis).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hegel-Ge-philosophy.html   (224 words)

  
 Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Within the dialectic, the terms maintain their differences at the same time that a common "ground" is formed.
This is a foundational dialectic for him, and so, as might be expected, it structures his discussions and dissections of every field of philosophy he enters: selfhood, justice, love, morality, personal identity, knowledge, time, language, metaphor, action, aesthetics, metaphysics, and so on.
Subjectivity, or selfhood, is for Ricoeur, a dialectic of activity and passivity because we are beings with a "double nature," structured along the fault lines of the voluntary and the involuntary, beings given to ourselves as something to be known.
www.iep.utm.edu /r/ricoeur.htm   (5334 words)

  
 Amerikan Expose | Hegelian Dialectic
The Hegelian Dialectic is, in short, the critical process by which the ruling elite create a problem, anticipating in advance the reaction that the population will have to the given crisis, and thus conditioning the people that a change is needed.
Then, the outcome of the "debate" — which purportedly weighs the concerns of the public with the mandate to do something — is enacted as public policy.
Such is a summary of the Hegelian Dialectic.
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 THE DIALECTIC OR SYNTHESIS
Hegel calls his doctrine of opposites dialectic, rejecting, as liable to cause misunderstandings, the other formulae of unity and coincidence of opposites, because in these stress is laid only upon the unity, and not at the same time upon the opposition.
In this negative dialectic the result is not the synthesis, but the annulment, of the two opposite terms, each on account of the other; and therefore the terminology, which we have explained above, also acquires, like the word "dialectic" itself, a somewhat different meaning.
The dialectic of Hegel, like all discoveries of truth, does not come to drive preceding truths from their place, but to confirm and to enrich them.
www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/it/croce.htm   (5217 words)

  
 U. N. WATCH
According to Dean Gotcher, an expert in philosophies, the Hegelian Dialectic is used with diverse groups to "dialogue to consensus." According to Dean, Hegel's process, which was revolutionary in his day, has now become the basic tool for developing and supporting the universal worldview of the New World Order.
The Hegelian Dialectic is being used and is part of Goals 2000 and Outcome Based Education.
The dialectic turns a man who fears God into an animal which fears man. If animals are supposed to fear man, and that's what God did after the flood, they put the fear of man in the animals.
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 The Hegelian dialectic: A productive method of evolution?
Following the Hegelian tradition Mayr was known make bold, inflammatory statements regarding his views on evolution, inviting rebuttal and debate.
This fundamental contrast between matter and the empty space it is in brings to mind the Hegelian dialectic.
In this way I believe the Hegelian dialectic does spur creative progress, because a "problem" must be defined before a new story to resolve it, or an answer, can be created.
serendip.brynmawr.edu /sci_cult/evolit/s05/web1/kshiner.html   (830 words)

  
 The Hegelian Dialectic of History and Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In any case, this is the Hegelian dialectic as explained by Antony C. Sutton who published his many books via the Hoover Institute at Stanford.
Understanding the dialectical process in relation to politics and history is key to understanding the hundreds of years of Governments and political parties, whilst war increases, poverty increases, and for all intents and purposes nothing really dramatically changes for the better.
quote:In Hegelian philosophy the conflict of political "right" and political "left," or thesis and antithesis in Hegelian terms, is essential to the forward movement of history and historical change itself.
www.allseeingeye.org /dialectic.htm   (668 words)

  
 Critique of Hegel's Philosophy in General, Marx, 1844
Feuerbach is the only one who has a serious, critical attitude to the Hegelian dialectic and who has made genuine discoveries in this field.
We shall explain both the abstract form of this process and the difference between this process as it is in Hegel in contrast to modern criticism, in contrast to the same process in Feuerbach’s Wesen des Christenthums, or rather the critical form of this in Hegel still uncritical process.
form as dialectic, is therefore regarded as truly human life, and because it is nevertheless an abstraction – an estrangement of human life – it is regarded as a divine process, but as the divine process of man, a process traversed by man’s abstract, pure, absolute essence that is distinct from himself.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/hegel.htm   (5576 words)

  
 THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Because the ultimate cause of progress in Hegel's view of history is an abstract force, we call his philosophy a form of idealism (there are many philosophical ideas which merit this description).
Karl Marx later accepts Hegel's idea of the dialectical process as the mainspring of inevitable human progress, but he rejects Hegel's explanation that all this is due to some abstract force seeking perfection.
Marx's view of history is called dialectical materialism because he sees the dialectical process being driven forward not by abstract forces, as Hegel did, but rather by solid material conditions, and particularly by economic factors.
www.calvertonschool.org /waldspurger/pages/hegelian_dialectic.htm   (209 words)

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