Understanding the Dialectical Method
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TEAM 9
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DIALECTICAL METHOD
The dialectical method has
its origin in antiquity
Greek. In modernity
is addressed by Marx,
Engels, Lenin and others; the
the same that determine
their general characters,
that constitute a
synthesis of its development
historic.
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DIALECTICAL METHOD
Its essence is
determined by the
theoretical sources and
scientific and by the
categories
fundamentals of
movement, of
space and of
time.
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The different meanings of dialectics
throughout history
Art of dialogue and discussion.
Struggle of the opposites by which progress arises
from History.
Reasoning technique that proceeds through the
deployment of a thesis and its antithesis, resolving it
contradiction through the formulation of a
final synthesis.
Art of organizing concepts into genres and
species.
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Way of rising from the sensible to the
unintelligible, that is to say starting from the certainty of the
senses towards the development of concepts of a
greater degree of universality and rationality.
Theory and method of knowledge of phenomena
of reality in its development and self-movement,
science that deals with the most general laws of
development of nature, of society and of
human thought that arises in opposition to the
Metaphysics.
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THE DIALECTIC
In antiquity: The word dialectic comes from the
Greek dialegomai, which means dialogue, conversation,
controversy. It was the way to reach the truth through
the discussion and the struggle of opinions, trying to
discover contradictions in the arguments of the
interlocutor.
Modernly: Engels defines it by stating that the
dialectical method considers things and ideas in their
linkage, in their mutual relations, in their
reciprocal action and the modification that results from it,
its birth, its development, and its decline.
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Dialectical method
The dialectical method constitutes the
scientific method of knowledge
of the world. Provides to the
man the possibility of
understand the most diverse
phenomena of reality. The
dialectical method when analyzing the
phenomena of nature, of the
society and thought
allows you to discover your true
laws and the driving forces of
development of reality.
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CHARACTERISTICS
Dialectics has the following characteristics
general
Everything is connected, nothing is isolated, there is a
universal connection. The reciprocal action between two
things and their complex relationships. The worker
adapts to the conditions it finds in the
nature and that orders its movements; but the
transformed by work. Even more so: by work, the
man has been gradually transforming.
B) Everything changes. Reality is constantly
transformation. The change is due to the struggle of
contradictory forces in the essence of things.
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Conclusion
It consists of working on a topic by visualizing its
evolution in three successive moments: THESIS
(approach, first idea) ANTITHESIS
(opposition, second idea) and SYNTHESIS (result
or the combination of the thesis and the antithesis, third
idea).
This method is useful for working on creativity,
democratic exercise, debates, history, sciences
social sciences, economics, philosophy.
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