Dialectic

Hegel (Method)

The self-movement of thought through contradictions. Not a formal argumentative scheme (thesis–antithesis–synthesis), but the demonstration of how determinations turn into their opposite and must be sublated.

Origin

Plato's dialectic (dialogue). Kant's dialectic (illusory problems). Hegel's dialectic: productive contradictions as the motor of development.

In Hegel

Enz. §81; WdL Vol. 1, Preface

Im buch

Ch. 1.11, 3.8, 5.5.C, 10.11, 23.2, 24.4, throughout