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    The Hegelian Dialectic

    The Doctrine of Being

    o Quality of Being:
    A. Being
    B. Being Determinate
    C. Being-for-Self

    o Quantity of Being

    A. Pure Quantity
    B. Quantum (How much?)
    C. Degree

    o Measure_of_Being

    The Doctrine of Essence

    I. ESSENCE AS GROUNDING OF EXISTENCE – Noumenon/Noumena
    (A). The Pure Categories/Principles of Reflection
    (B). Existence
    (C) The Thing

    II. APPEEARANCE – Phenomenon/Phenomena
    (A). The World of Appearance
    (B). Content and Form
    (C). Relation or Correlation

    III. ACTUALITY
    (A). Relationship of Substantiality
    (B) Relationship of Causality
    (C). Reciprocity or Action and Reaction

    The Doctrine of Notion/Concept

    I. The Subjective Notion
    II. The Object
    III. The Idea
    - Life
    - Cognition in General
    - The Absolute Idea

    The Law of Unity & Conflict of Opposites = [The 1st Law of Dialectical Materialism]

    “Everything is & is not” in contradistinction to “The Law of Excluded Middle which states: “Either is or is not; not both, and not neither; but either one (#Thesis) or the other (#Antithesis)”: of the (Formal) Logical Absolutes; also called “The Laws of Thought”.
    = Every ‘thing’ is in a constant state of flux (being / not-being or nothing).

    The Hegelian Dialectic obeys the Triadic Structure of Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis. For Example: Let the development of nothing(ness) from being (somethingness) = Thesis. Then, Antithesis is its converse:

    - Let: the process of passing from being to nothing be := “ceasing to be” : => Thesis_1
    - Let: from #nothing to #being: = “coming to be” : => Antithesis_1:
    Therefore: Synthesis_1 = becoming;

    In other words, being and its negation, nothing, synthesize a third entity - the synthesis - which is a sublimation of thesis (being) and antithesis (nothing) ---> synthesis (becoming). The synthesis and its own antithesis and lead to another synthesis, and so on. This process is infinite.

    Contradictions in things can be expressed at three levels:

    The Doctrine of #Being – “Contradiction in Being”
    The Doctrine of #Essence – “Contradiction in Essence”
    The Doctrine of #Notion – “Contradiction in Notion”

    Things can be thought of as the unity of phenomenon (#Appearance of #Reality) and #noumenon (the #thing-in-#itself / #essence);

    Dialectics is the #method of #reasoning which aims to understand things concretely: in all their movement/constant change and interconnection with their opposite and contradictory sides in unity. Dialectics is opposed to the formal, metaphysical mode of thought of ordinary understanding which begins with a fixed definition of a thing according to its various attributes.

    The Appearance of The Reality of the “thing” is also called “The Phenomenon” = [Phenomenal Nature] = Appearance in Reality;

    The Reality of the “thing” = the “thing in-itself” is called “The Noumenon”, or [Noumenal Nature] = Its Reality.

    According to Ordinary Understanding of the Thing; There is no difference between the appearance of a thing and its essence, but for dialectics, the form and content of something can be quite contradictory: (Noumenon =/ = Phenomenon); Example, A parliamentary democracy is a democracy in form (notion/concept), but a dictatorship in content (essence/noumenon). For Dialectics, things can be #contradictory not just in #appearance, but in #essence (phenomenon vs. noumenon, respectively).
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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel influenced many with his Dialectics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/he...).

    Mark Levin, a right wing radio commentator, goes through some philosophy and why Democrats seem drawn to Marxism via Hegelianism.

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    The Hegelian Master-Slave Dialectic: Lordship and Bondship.

    The master discovers his dependence on the slave. The slave and the master are caught in a relationship they both depend on.
    This gives us an insight into how capitalism works, Dr. Richard D. Wolff explains in this short video.

    The master-slave dialectic in capitalism and what to do about it. Hegelian philosophy in practice (in Marxism, the Marxian critique of capitalism).
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