Question : Comment: ‘Movement is contradiction itself.’ Examine, in this context, Hegel’s dialectical method.
(2013)
Answer : “Movement is contradiction in itself “ is an example of the thesis and antithesis. Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a threefold manner, was stated 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. On the other hand, Hegel did use a three-valued logical model that ....
Question : Explain Hegelian dialectical method and show how it is useful in explaining the historical development process?
(2012)
Answer : Hegel’s idealism is famous for its Dialectic method. According to it, reality expresses itself in three stages. Chronology of man’s historical development and thinking process is in the form of a triadic process. Three stages are Thesis, Anti-thesis and Synthesis. Through the medium of these three stages development takes place.
In Hegel’s philosophy, dialectic method is a philosophical method. It is a method or a transition from the abstract to the lively or logical development. Through ....
Question : “The rational is real and real is rational.” – Comment.
(2009)
Answer : While Leibniz inferred the nature of representation in all the things from the nature of representation in the individual mind, Hegel attempted to draw from reality the universal, absolute Spirit itself which endeavors to fulfill the purpose and meaning of becoming the expression of Spirit that each individual spirit has its own task at its own stage to actualize itself through the series of thought’s objectification. According to Hegel, what is rational is real (the ....
Question : Hegel’s Dialectical method.
(2007)
Answer : One of the earliest forms of employing the dialectical method was the Dialogues of Greek philosopher Plato in which the author sought to study truth through discussion in the form of questions and answers. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, thought of dialectic as the search for the philosophic basis of science, and he frequently used the term as a synonym for the science of logic.
Hegel’s aim was to set forth a philosophical system so comprehensive that ....
