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Hegel's Dialectical Reasoning
dialectics is an adversarial system of progressive reasoning that passes through three stages, usually described as thesis, antithesis and synthesis. It's a dynamic form of construction, deconstruction and re construction. This dialectical form of reasoning and investigation goes way back to the beginning of recorded history and enjoys wide use in both ancient and mediaeval philosophy. Dialectic was imported from hegel to marks, and from marks into marxism. Marks then took his materialism and these dialecticism combined them with another big idea: political activism. The conflict between apparently contradictory forces, was the driver not just of philosophical history but also human history. So now we have the foundational concepts that allowed marks