1)
Fancy academic term for the inquiry of
truths in an
opinion2) See: Hegelian dialectic, Dialectical materialism, Hegelianism
1) The two exchanged dialectics with regards to the recent statements made by the president.
2) For Hegel, the concrete, the synthesis, the absolute, must always pass through the phase of the negative, in the journey to completion, that is, mediation.
Day must always be met with night; either one cannot stay forever. A peaceful kingdom
will always be met with a violent revolution. The sun
will eventually explode and earth
will ultimately become stardust for yet another
star and its planetary system.
Nothing is stagnant or fixed in the grand scheme of things; its current state is the reflection and outcome of a long chain of events in the past, and is still destined to an endless cycle of renewal. This is the essence of what is popularly called Hegelian dialectics.