Sentence examples for dialectical purpose from inspiring English sources

(The qualification is crucial to his primary dialectical purpose of reconciling internalism and the Humean Theory of Motivation with moral realism).

It was shown earlier that the purpose of dialectical or negative thinking was to reveal social contradictions and demand the overcoming of those contradictions through social change.

The purpose of dialectical or negative thinking is to expose and then overcome by revolutionary action the contradictions by which advanced industrial societies are constituted.

It is hardly more satisfying to be told by Owen that Parmenides' cosmology has a purpose that is "wholly dialectical" (Owen 1960, 54 5; cf. Long 1963 for a more detailed development of this interpretive line).

Hegel called this evolution "the dialectical process" (see dialectic).

One of the deepest threats to rationality is from those who use skeptical arguments as dialectical tools for what I call "leveling-down" purposes.

Two questions still remain: (1) What role does dialectical reference play in the theatre?

Such dialectical subleties may serve well enough for purposes of explaining away uncritical language in earlier cases.

TCM has a profound dialectical therapy theory, which plays a unique role in rehabilitation.

In so doing the fragments constitute the dialectical image, dialectical movement frozen for a moment, open for inspection, dialectics at a standstill: "Only dialectical images are genuine images".

See also dialectical materialism.