Philosophy: Truth and Dialectics

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Dialectics

  • an act of refutation

  • Original work of Hegel

  • A process to bring forth change

  • Karl Marx got the idea from Hegel

  • a philosophy that explains change motion and development.

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Greek noun for dialogos

  • the art of argumentation/refutation (dialectike techne)

  • from the verb dialegesthai, meaning "to enter into a conversation."

    • is derived from this verb as well, but in the case of Socratic dialectic the relevant Greek term is elegkhos (elenchus).

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Elenchus

  • means testing, and since those tested by

    Socratic questioning are often shown inadequate in their responses, it comes to mean refutation.

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Thesis

  • The currently perceived truth

  • Starting point/status quo

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Antithesis

  • opposing point of view

  • Mechanism for change (opposing group, ideas, people)

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Synthesis

  • When thought tries to reconcile thesis with antithesis

  • Progress

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Industrial Revolution

  • refers to the rapid changes in the organization of manufacturing industry that transformed countries from rural agricultural to urban industrial economies.

  • It began in the late 18th century in the Midlands area of England,