Greek: "discourse" Interpretation of change emphasizing the clash of opposing interests and the resulting struggle as the engine of social transformation Concept developed by Hegel to explain historical processes in terms of thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis
the Socratic method of discovering truth through questioning and debate, altered and developed by his Greek successors, and still a model of overwhelming importance in philosophy Kantian dialectic expressed reason's capacity to reach contradictory conclusions from apparently sound premises Hegel's dialectic drove the necessary unfolding and development of concepts in history Marx's dialectic explained the historical development of society through class conflict and the relations between the forces and relations of production and the base and superstructure
A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
The process, particularly employed in Plato's dialogues, of discovering first principles, or underlying realities, through digging out, possibly through Socratic questioning of another, what is presupposed by our common sense beliefs about, and experience of, the world The Socratic, or negative, dialectic would be one practiced in the early dialogues where the demolition of wrong opinions is all that is desired; the Platonic dialectic proper would aim at also unearthing supersensory realities (Platonic universals) The Hegelian dialectic is a process through which mind (or reason) moves through history, acting and reacting, toward some final resolution; the Marxist dialectic sees this historical process as fundamentally economic, and material, in character
Greek: dialektos = discourse, pertaining to, or of the nature of, logical argumentation proceeding by or as if by debate between conflicting points of view Process of a change that results from an interplay between opposite tendencies (from Macquarie Dictionary)
a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction; "this situation created the inner dialectic of American history"
any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction; "this situation created the inner dialectic of American history"
in general, the critical analysis of ideas to determine their meanings, implications, and assumptions; as used by Hegel, a method of reasoning used to synthesize contradictions
In classical Greece, a process of discussion that is illustrated in Plato's dialogues was called dialectic It is a way of questioning and conversing and reasoning Kant referred to the "transcendental dialectic" as metaphysical reasoning that tried, without success (or possible success) to figure out what the truth was beyond our senses The German philosopher, Hegel, applied the term to a process of development in which one idea (the thesis) begets its opposite (the antithesis) and the two come together to form a synthesis Marx built on this Hegelian notion of dialectic in his version of dialectical materialism
n The art or practice of arriving at the truth by disclosing the contradictions in an opponent's argument and overcoming them The Hegelian process of change whereby an ideational entity, a thesis, is transformed into its opposite, an antithesis, and preserved and fulfilled by it, the combination of the two being resolved in a higher form of truth, a synthesis
a system that tries to figure out what the truth is by using logic Picture it as another discussion This time two people are using their reason and rational to come to the truth
any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
A method of philosophical inquiry that proceeds by means of a dialogue between the advocates of opposing positions, where thesis and counter-thesis, argument and counter-argument are continually leveled against one another until one position triumphs over its contenders
In philosophy, dialectics is a method of reasoning and reaching conclusions by considering theories and ideas together with ones that contradict them. a method of examining and discussing ideas in order to find the truth, in which two opposing ideas are compared in order to find a solution that includes them both (dialectica, from Greek% dialektos; DIALECT)