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Understanding the Dialectic

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Alphaben - The Idea of the Dialectic

Hegel was in love with this self-speculative word, Alphaben. It defined how he approached the idea of combining a thesis and an antithesis. He wanted to create some higher level understanding of this more effective, better thing. The Marxists translate Alphaben as sublate, which means to destroy the particulars,.

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