Rephrased, will dialectics always exist?
Have fun, because I sure don’t.
edit: if it helps your thinking process a bit, consider this:
- Dialectics explains the process of contradictions. So, does dialectics go through its own contradictions?
- If so, that means dialectics has a process of its own and describes its own process as well. It’s a bit like the “does a set of all sets contain itself” question.
- But if the laws of dialectics are eternal and dialectics does not go through its own process and contradictions, then it would be eternal. Is that possible though?
- And finally of course what are the implications of all of that?
Dialectics is not on its most developed form for sure, but i think there is a kernel of objective truth in it so i don’t think it ever becomes obsolete. I think this is where materialism enters the discussion, one of it’s principles is that reality is objective and the laws of that govern our world can be known and disclosed through practice and science.
Hegel once said that each philosopher spoke the truth of its time, but could it be possible that dialectics is the objective truth? Dialectical thinking has existed long before dialectics was coined by Hegel, so i dont think its out of reach to think there is some objective truth in it.