HEGELIAN DIALECTICS: THE WAY GOD ARGUES

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 GWF Hegal, the state philosopher, the philosopher of idealism, the philosopher of Absolute Idea, the Philosopher, who idea of state rationality gives rise to a different set of ethics and is a basis to all hitherto materialisms coming after him. And still, we are going to talk about his ultimate contribution to mankind and philosophy, his Dialectics. 

Why Dialectics is my favorite of all kinds of philosophies? It is not dialectical materialism although I call myself a Marxist. It is not any spiritual thought but a very mute tool of argument, Hegelian Dialectics. Why Dialectics?

Dialectics is not just a way of argument. It is a way to see the world working and progressing. How does a river flow? By means of Dialectics I claim. How does we grow from childhood to adults? How does political systems work? Dialectics, I claim. That too, Hegelian one. 

What is Special about Hegelian dialectics? It is not just a series of Thesis, Anti-thesis and Synthesis. It is a series of contradictions in which the world progresses. It is inherent in the seed to become a tree, even though we know, A seed is not a tree. In fact, they are opposites, Contradictory to each other. Still, A seed grows into a tree. It is in the destruction of the seed is the success of the birth of tree. In other words, A failure of being leads to a success of being. You see! Here, it starts becoming interesting. 

The thesis evolves into its own anti-thesis. The thesis is said to Sublate into its own anti-thesis. This means Any thesis has its own self-negating characteristic. This sublation is not the only process that is going on. There is something called abrogation also at play here. This means as the thesis sublates to create anti-thesis out of it, it, at the same time, within itself, the thesis seems to excrete itself out of meaning. For example: The seed loses its seed-ness in order to sublate itself into a new form called the tree. By this very process, it liberates its own meaning. The anti-thesis starts to gain meaning. Isn't the way God must have reasoned in order to make this world?  I too, believe that. 

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