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Dialectical thought is in some ways the opposite of logical thought. It seeks not to decontextualize but to see things in their appropriate contexts: Events do not occur in isolation from other events, but are always embedded in a meaningful whole in which the elements are constantly changing and rearranging themselves. To think about an object or
... See moreJason Gregory • Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
Dialectic: dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argument.
Examples: I am strong, yet vulnerable
Gramsci described the dialectic I am reaching for when he said we should practise pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will, a disjunction that will only work if both ends of the dialectic stay in touch with each other.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Dialectic generally means “of the nature of the dialogue,” which is a conversation between two persons. Nowadays it means logical argumentation. It involves a technique of cross-examination, by which truth is arrived at.
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Unlike the Hegelian dialectic, the conception of dialogical transcendence is not one of synthesis, sublation and supercession (aufheben) of contradictions. Rather, in the mode of circulatory transformations, it is one of exchange, competition, coexistence and partial absorption often under the sign of denial.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
the real here means really lived or really experienced in the world, as opposed to a construct of thinking. Real is contrasted with abstract or theoretical. But this raises another question we need to face: If a noetic dialectic operates in the mind or intellect, where specifically does a real dialectic operate? To say that a real dialectic is real
... See moreAndrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
Only the real dialectic, not the noetic, can confront the reductions of modernity.