Legal Definition and Related Resources of Dialectic
Meaning of Dialectic
Synonyms of Dialectic
noun
- applied logic
- apprehension
- argumentation
- brainwork
- cerebration
- chain of reasoning
- cogitation
- concluding
- consideration
- contemplation
- deducing
- deduction
- deliberation
- deriving
- discursive reasoning
- drawing conclusions
- force of argument
- induction
- inferring
- judgment
- logic
- logic of discursive argument
- logical argumentation
- logical discussion
- logical process
- logical sequence
- mode of reasoning
- ratiocination
- rationalism
- rationalization
- rationalizing
- reasoning
- reflection
- rumination
- thinking
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Definition of Dialectic
The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Dialectic: The belief that social organization, culture and intellectual ideas change because of the development of contradictions that create challenges to the existing state of affairs and lead to the emergence of something new from this tension. Georg Hegel (1770-1831) developed this idea in Western philosophy when he claimed that every existing social arrangement or intellectual belief system represents a ‘thesis’ – a way of doing or thinking about things – that gives rise to a contradictory, or opposing, ‘antithesis’. From the contest between ‘thesis’ and ‘antithesis’ emerges something new and unique: a ‘synthesis’. There is some element of this conception in the writing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) when he claims that contradictions arise in capitalism and the resolution of these contradictions produces a new type of social and economic system. This suggests that the seeds of capitalism’s demise or transformation are located within capitalism and are not generated from outside. See: CONTRADICTIONS OF CAPITALISM / DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM in this legal dictionary and in the world encyclopedia of law.
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Notes and References
- Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Dialectic. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada
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