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?
I would even argue that, to some level, pre-notions of later views of Dialects could be seen in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. His conception of the Categorical Imperative relies on the same principles of the contradictory position of opposing ideas determining the correct way of viewing (in his position) moral actions. Though this was less applied to viewing social trends, I think it is interesting to see as a historical perspective.
Kant’s totally in there. Of course, he came after Spinoza and probably developed and disputed his ideas a decent bit. Of course everyone intellectualizing any of these places and times could have had a direct impact on the development of this philosophy. I felt like I had written enough names and didn’t need to add Fichte, Lao Tzu…