2022: Creating a Lexicon of Future

H is for Hegelian Dialectic

Dialectic is a method of discussion between two arguments in an effort to finding a better truth and throughout histories, various philosophers have come up with their own logic of dialectic. Hegelian dialectic was born during the modern philosophy time, adopting Plato’s dialectic with Hegel’s own touch to it.

The Hegelian dialectic is an interpretive method in which the seeming contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and some opposing proposition (antithesis) is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis).

As the HegelianDialectic is an aesthetic fundamentally bent on usurping binaries in favor of trichotomies, it is a numerology based upon the number 3. Which isn’t to say it isn’t useful or that it’s somehow impoverished. Indeed, quite the opposite.

The dogma of 3-ary analysis has cropped up is many disparate fields of human intellectual history. Siddhartha was born a prince, but he renounced his riches to he become an ascetic and pursue enlightenment. But soon he rejected also the way of the ascetic. He achieved enlightenment and became the Buddha by renouncing ‘both’ extremes and proclaiming “the middle way the best”.

Hegel’s formulation is deeply teleological: each of these thesis-anithesis-synthesis cycles (the synthesis becomes a thesis, to which, and so on…) is meant to inevitably lead us to some kind of paradise. ~ Hegelian Dialectic