The phrase "dialectic by" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English. It is typically used to introduce the source or method of a particular dialectic, which is a method of reasoning and discussion used to resolve conflicts or contradictions. Example: The decision-making process in our company is characterized by a dialectic approach, guided by open discussions and debates among team members.
And in Morals, too, Philosophy uses Dialectic: by Dialectic it comes to contemplation, though it originates of itself the moral state or rather the discipline from which the moral state develops.
James Gray's The Lost City of Z, which shares a similar setting, isn't quite so revolutionary, but escapes the net of the evil European/noble savage dialectic by focusing on a driven lead character drawn to a higher, nobler purpose than fame and fortune.
Anthony G. Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner argue that culture itself is a dialectic constantly in progress, a conflict between the established canon and newly imagined "possible worlds". They illustrate the swings of this dialectic by a masterly analysis of the Supreme Court's race-discrimination decisions during the past century.
Kierkegaard's strategy was to invert this dialectic by seeking to make everything more difficult.
In addition to detailing Hegel's relation to Kant and criticizing the simplification of the dialectic by Hegel's commentators, Althusser argues in this work that the dialectic "cannot be attacked for its form" (1947, 116).
The development of the 'sharp eye' that is needed for the assignment of a certain object to the right class is the aim of the method of dialectic by collection and division, a method that Plato expounds at some length in the Phaedrus.
Invention and disposition were assigned to dialectics, by now largely a silent art of disputation which in the Ramist system placed a premium upon self-evident, axiomatic statements.
(Note that earlier conceptions of metamodernism used "meta-" as a reference to Plato's "metaxis," which signals an oscillatory movement between poles. The problem with "metaxic oscillation" is that it merely re-entrenches postmodern dialectics by convincing us that every problem is fundamentally bipolar).
Think of Dialectic Chaos by Megadeth or The Ides of March by Iron Maiden.
Bernard complained of the excessive indulgence in dialectic displayed by contemporaries such as Peter Abelard (1079 1142).
But there are already signs that the dialectic favored by the forthcoming novus ordo seclorum may well display what Sean Hannity would probably not call "Hegelian tendencies".
