Questions tagged [dialectic]
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What is the role of subject and object in human history, according to Hegel?
What is the role of subject and object in human history, according to Hegel?
I'm asking for two reasons, one a little inane, and the second a little naive.
I'm wondering how much of our cultural ...
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Dialectic : alternative to heuristic approach
Which approach can be alternative to heuristic in dialectic ?
I'm afraid that the only named approach that I'm aware of of eristic.
But, didn't the philosophers studied something more constructive ...
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What does "helical change" mean in Hegelian dialectic?
Is it possible to clarify the "helical change" in Hegelian dialectic with an example?
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What is the difference between dialectic and logic?
What is the difference between dialectic and logic? By dialectic, I mean what Plato employs in dialogues.
Thanks in advance!
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What is the "concrete universal" in Hegel and Adorno?
The core argument of this article is that Adorno adopts the
distinction between an abstract and a concrete universal from Hegel
and criticizes Hegel, on that basis, as abstract. The first two ...
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What would Marx and his dialectic claim happens when both classes have been ruined?
Marx famously, in his communist manifesto, said
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,
guild-master(3) and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed,
stood in constant ...
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Can the meaning of "negative dialectics" be paraphrased?
At the very beginning of his book Negative Dialectics, Adorno writes
As early as Plato, dialectics meant to achieve something positive by
means of negation; the thought figure of a “negation of ...
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Did Plato record actual conversations in his dialogues?
For example, Did Socrates really meet Zeno in Parmenides as a young man and the conversation that took place between them was recorded by Plato?
Are ANY of Plato's dialogues recordings of actual ...
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Which philosopher discusses simultaneously considering an opinion and its opposite?
I remember reading somewhere that philosophical thinking was about being able to simultaneously consider one opinion and its opposite, or something of the like. Where was that? I am pretty sure it was ...
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What philosopher said that knowledge is about discerning differences?
I have heard that knowledge is discerning differences or to that effect. For example, if all things are the same such that there is no differentiating qualities, we can't really speak of anything ...
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Dialectic vs Logical positivism
Dialectic is opposite to Metaphysic.
Also Logical positivism criticizes Metaphysic since in Logical positivism only statements verifiable either logically or empirically would be cognitively ...
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Dialectical Relationships
When I read over Rollo May's books I found that he uses several times the phrase "dialectical relationship". I cannot deduce from those contexts what this phrase really means, but I figure it must be ...
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Is Humankind just a stage in the chain of stages, of which evolution of Nature is comprised of? [closed]
Is Humankind just a stage in the chain of stages, of which evolution of Nature is comprised of and will humanity be superseded at some point because of either biological or intellectual evolution?
If ...
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Did Hegel propagate the concept of dialectical materialism?
This is a test question:
State and examine the main features of Dialectical Materialism as
enunciated by Hegel.
Is it wrong? The reason I ask is because Hegel propagated the concept of ...
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Dialectical materialism outside Marxism
Wikipedia page on dialectical materialism mentions that some evolutionary biologists used it in their inquiries.
What are other examples of using dialectical materialism outside Marxism?
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