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Dialectic

Dialectic (from Ancient Greek dialektikē), also known as the dialectical method, is a method of reasoning and philosophical argument that emphasizes the progression of thought through a process of resolving contradictions. The term, rooted in the Ancient Greek dialegesthai ('to converse'), was popularized by Plato's Socratic dialogues, which presented…

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related to Works cited · 73
Dialectic → Arthur, Bertell, Brill, Campbell, Christopher, Classical Marxist Tradition, Cornell University Press, Creighton, CS1, Cultural-Historical Research, Dafermos, Dance, Development, Dialectical Logic, Dialectical Materialism, Dialectics, Dialogue, Dmitri, Eleonore, Essays
related to Soviet and Western Marxism · 41
Dialectic → Adorno, After, Antonio Gramsci, Class Consciousness, Deborinites, Early Western Marxists, Engels, Engels's Dialectics, European, Evald Ilyenkov, Georg Lukács, Georgi Plekhanov, He, Hegel's, Hegelian, Herbert Marcuse, History, However, In, Karl Korsch
related to Analytic and postmodern critiques · 26
Dialectic → Auschwitz, Bertrand Russell, Drawing, English-speaking, For Popper, Friedrich Nietzsche's, Gilles Deleuze, Hegel, Hegel's, Hegelian, Hegelianism, However, Its Enemies, Jacques Derrida's, Jean-François Lyotard, Karl Popper, Lyotard, Marxist, Michel Foucault, Post-structuralism
related to Contemporary relevance · 19
Dialectic → According, Bertell Ollman, Figures, Following, German, Given, Hegel, Hegel's, Hegelian, John McDowell, Lacanian, Manolis Dafermos, Myth, Robert Brandom, Slavoj, Soviet Union, The, Wilfrid Sellars, Within
related to Medieval and Renaissance philosophy · 18
Dialectic → Aristotelian, Aristotle's, Aristotle's Organon, Augustine, Boethian, Boethius, Cicero, De, Early Christian, Hippo, In, Latin West, Middle Ages, Tertullian, The, Theophrastus, This, Topics
related to German idealism · 17
Dialectic → Critique, Enlightenment's, For Kant, French Revolution, German, God, He, Immanuel Kant, Its, Kant, Kant's, Logik, Pure Reason, Scheins, Seeing, Vernunft, While
related to Metaphysics and the rise of modern science · 17
Dialectic → Deus, Evald Ilyenkov, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Engels, God, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Natura, Nature, Omnis, René Descartes, Soviet, Spinoza's, The, The Cartesian, This, While Baruch Spinoza's
related to Ancient Eastern thought · 15
Dialectic → Book, Changes, Chinese, Ching, Early, Eastern, However, In, It, Tao, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Taoist, The, This
related to Ancient Greece · 15
Dialectic → BC, Being, Central, Elea, Eleatics, For Heraclitus, Greece, Heraclitus, His, In, Parmenides, Pre-Socratic, Seeming, The, Zeno
related to Marxist dialectics · 15
Dialectic → According, Arnold Ruge's, Bertell Ollman, For Marx, Friedrich Engels, Hegel's, Hegelian, In, Karl Marx, Ludwig Feuerbach's, Marx, Spirit, Their, They, Young Hegelian

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