Quotes About Dialectic

Delle filosofie, nell'emisfero boreale, accade ció che nell'emisfero australe accade dei sostantivi: il fatto che ogni filosofia non possa essere, in partenza, che un gioco dialettico, una Philosophie des Als Ob, ha contribuito a moltiplicarle.

El hecho de que toda filosofía sea de antemano un juego dialéctico, una Philosophie des Als Ob, ha contribuido a multiplicarlas.

Knowledge has three degrees—opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second dialectic; of the third intuition. To the last I subordinate reason. It is absolute knowledge founded on the identity of the mind knowing with the object known.

Better to be without dialectic rather than without thinking.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!

James Scott, ICIT, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, Cybersecurity , America , Hegelian dialectic style manipulation , society

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Yet it is perhaps worth mentioning that the masculine tenor of God-talk is particularly problematic in English. In Hebrew, Arabic and French, however, grammatical gender gives theological discourse a sort of sexual counterpoint and dialectic, which provides a balance that is often lacking in English. Thus in Arabic al-Lah (the supreme name for God) is grammatically masculine, but the word for the divine and inscrutable essence of God—al-Dhat—is feminine.

Pengabstrakan kerja dalam bentuk uang mengandaikan dialektika di antara perkerjaan/kerja yang secara sosial dibutuhkan untuk membuat barang dagangan/komoditi/jasa, dengan proses produksi kapitalisme yang justru meniadakan kerja manusia itu sendiri. Sehingga proses produksi kapitalisme dalam kelanjutannya hanya menempatkan manusia sebagai bagian dari proses akumulasi modal.

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion.

For this reason I get impatient with people who depict Marx's dialectic as a closed method of analysis. It is not finite; on the contrary, it is constantly expanding, and here he is explaining precisely how. We only have to review what we have already experienced in reading Capital; the movement of its argument is a perpetual reshaping, rephrasing and expansion of the field of contradictions.

it is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

punto de partida es la duda metódica. La duda cartesiana no es escepticismo, sino un procedimiento dialéctico de investigación, encaminado a desprender y aislar la primera verdad evidente, la primera idea clara y distinta, la primera naturaleza simple.

La dialettica hegeliana si fondava sul coraggio fisico: colui che non ha paura sarà il padrone, colui che ha paura sarà lo schiavo. La dialettica romanzesca si fonda sull'ipocrisia: la violenza, lungi dal servire gli interessi di colui che la esercita, rivela l'intensità del suo desiderio; è dunque un segno di schiavitù.

la dialectique contient souvent chez lui [Platon] une certaine part de « jeu », ce qui est très conforme à la mentalité grecque, mais, quand il l'abandonne pour le mythe, on peut être sûr que le jeu a cessé et qu'il s'agit de choses ayant en quelque façon un caractère « sacré ».