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Did Plato record actual conversations in his dialogues?
Both of the answers are correct to point out that the dialogues are fictitious. It is extremely unlikely any section of any length is a transcript of an actual conversation between Socrates and anyone....
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How do logicians think about Hegel's logic
In a very compressed nutshell, modern logic is concerned with relations of implication, contradiction, independence and the like between propositions and predicates.
In contrast Hegel's logic ...
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What is Hegelian dialectic of good and evil and how does it relate to binary opposition in structuralism?
There is no "synthesis" in Hegel, it is Fichte's term later adopted by Marx and Engels. Hegel specifically discards Fichte's thesis-antithesis-synthesis triad and replaces it with his own: ...
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Did Plato record actual conversations in his dialogues?
As far as I know Plato's dialogues are fictitious.
E.g., Parmenides died at about 460 BCE in the South of Italy, while Socrates was born at 470 BCE in Athens. Hence the meeting of Parmenides with a ...
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Questions concerning the Hegelian dialectic
The myth of thesis-antithesis-synthesis
" Dialectic" does not for Hegel mean " thesis,
antithesis, and synthesis." ...
Hermann Glockner's reliable Hegel Lexikon (4 volumes, Stuttgart, 1935)
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Is Hegel's sublation a gateway to Deleuze's Difference and Repetition?
I'll consider that your question is two-fold, one relating to the relationship between Deleuze & Hegel, and secondly, the source of inspiration of Difference & Repetition.
With regard to the ...
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What is the meaning of "dialectic"and "analytic" in Kant's First Critique?
The genesis of the terms "analytic" and "dialectic" in Kant's time is discussed in Tonelli's Der historische Ursprung der kantischen Termini „Analytik“ und „Dialektik“, who ...
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What is the difference between dialectic and logic?
The link between the two is strong.
The "dialectical method" (ἡ διαλεκτικὴ μέθοδος)was used by Plato in his dialogues as the central tool for philosophical inquiry; see Rep, 533c and see e.g. :
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What's this historiographic method of argumentation used by Foucault?
To explain Foucault's method of archaeology it might be best to work from an example. In the history of economic thought there are various systems of of ideas : mercantislism, physiocracy, 'classical' ...
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Is there an issue with the Socratic method arguing against points?
The Socratic method isn't meant to convince people of specific points, the way that modern (Aristotelian-based) logic is. The Socratic method is meant to bring people to understands internal ...
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Enantiodromia--How Do Symbols Undergo an Inversion of Meaning?
In linguistics, a reclaimed or reappropriated word is a word previously used as a perjorative against some group X and now used as a signifier of in group status (amongst other things). If you are ...
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Did Hegel propagate the concept of dialectical materialism?
Hegel himself can be read as materialistic (in a very, very weak sense): In the sense that the general in which the particular being is thought, the concept ("Begriff"), is always "grounded" in the ...
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What does Kierkegaard think the self is?
It can be difficult and misleading to try to comprehend Kierkegaard line by line. Like Lao Tzu, he's a philosopher of paradox, and you gain an apprehension of the grand sweep of his ideas by ...
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How to build up clear ideas
I don't think there's a technique you can apply or a practically useful set of rules. The best way to learn the clear, concise and accurate expression of ideas in philosophy is to read, and assimilate ...
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How do I differentiate between synchronic and dialectic approaches?
I think that it has more to do with Synchronic vs Diachronic structuralism. Synchronics look at an idea in a specific time interval while Diachronics look at the evolution of an idea. Atleast as Hegel'...
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is there an any practical application of dialectical materialism?
▻ AMBIGUITY OF 'PRACTICAL APPLICATION'
There is no doubt that politicians, academics, activists and others have used the label, 'dialectical materialism', some in good faith and others not, to ...
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Fredric Jameson's "Dialectical Sentences"
In regards to Jameson, the assertion that we could take individual sentences, lift them out of context and observe their "dialectical" style, is itself an inherently undialectical approach (...
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What topics of philosophy should I study to understand the dialectics of societies?
Two key starting points:
Sociology was a branch of philosophy when Hegel revived the ancient Greek conception of dialectics. It is now a science.
THAT societies operate under a principle of dialectics ...
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Sociological-philosophical theories of society’s tendencies to react against itself, inescapably biased in some way
It would be helpful if your question was more clear, but based on my understanding of it I think you'd want a thorough understanding of biology, evolutionary theory and it's implications on society, ...
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What is the role of subject and object in human history, according to Hegel?
The terms subject and object have a very complex history (the terms have opposite meanings in classical and modern philosophy). For the purposes of this question, I'm going to restrict myself to the ...
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What does Kierkegaard think the self is?
The last sentence gives a clue as to why "man is not yet a self."
Since a synthesis is a relation between two (my emphasis) factors, and since "the self is a relation which relates itself to its own ...
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How do logicians think about Hegel's logic
Within the realm of propositional calculus, there was an attempt to formalize Hegel's way of thinking by a four-valued logic called "directional logic" by a Polish logician L. Rogowski. ...
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What philosophical approaches towards social philosophy and social relations do we know?
What philosophical approaches towards social relations do we know?
This is a somewhat unclear question because it is too vague. Social Philosophy can just mean the social sciences in general, ethics, ...
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Relation of dialectics, as of Hegel and Marx, toward Enlightenment liberalism
In Platonism and Neoplatonism, dialectic assumes an ontological and metaphysical role in that it becomes the process whereby the intellect passes from sensibles to intelligibles, raising from idea to ...
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Isn't it rationality circular reasoning?
You are implying that a thing of a kind and another thing of a kind being involved in a logical argument makes it circular. This is not the case.
Circular reasoning is when you start with the premise ...
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