Sentence examples for dialectic meant from inspiring English sources

For Marx, the "dialectic" meant that political systems plant the seeds of their own destruction.

Southbridge prep school has to find room for an evacuated city school and the incoming headmaster, who is worried about "this new and peculiar world where no one knew what dialectic meant".

As early as Plato, dialectics meant to achieve something positive by means of negation; the thought figure of the 'negation of the negation' later became the succinct term.

By the "dialectic", he means a constant movement between the two sides, between sympathiser and sympathisee, this movement occuring not with likeable characters, but the reverse: "Real sympathy", he says (meaning real novelistic sympathy), "is the benign sentence handed down to those who do not deserve it.

It is sometimes argued that the unusual literary style of Dialectic itself is meant to exemplify such an attempt at escaping the ossification of thought (for an interpretation that generally takes such a view, see Honneth 2007).

"The essence of the Talmud is an ongoing dialectic, it was never meant to be a closed book".

Otto, the uncle of the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, had received the best education available in his time, which meant studying dialectic and theology in Paris (perhaps under the theologian and philosopher Peter Abelard).

Just because my preferred means of bringing the world into conformity with my desires is respectful dialectic does not mean that I cannot or would not avail myself of some other means of persuasion, or even deception or coercion (which includes lobbying for legislation), should the occasion demand the cooperation of others and seem sufficiently pressing by my cognitive and conative lights.

For Rickert, in particular, already in Kant's first Critique "the focal point is not in the transcendental aesthetic and analytic but rather in the dialectic, and this means that the main problem of this work is not a theory of the experiential sciences (Erfahrungswissenschaften).

Compared with early Mohist ethics, the Dialectics specify more precisely what is meant by "inclusive" care, indicating that we are to have an equal degree of care for all, using the same phrase that in Mohist geometry refers to two equal lengths: "Inclusive care is equal; care for each one is equal" (EC13).

All is chaos and nothing is what's meant to be either in terms of Hegelian dialectics or God.