A Brief Note on 'Dialectic'

Throughout this blog, the word 'dialectic' is used by me to mean its simplist, Hegelian format: a proposition (the thesis) is set against an antithesis. These combine to become a synthesis, which provides its antithesis - and the cycle continues.

The word is much contested, and Hare's use of it suggests he is considering it as a Marxist dialectic, which adapts Hegel to a more socialist historical narrative. Further consideration of the concept is beyond the scope of this study, although the application of deconstruction, dialectic's opposite philosophical concept, would be fascinating.