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[catalogued under 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic]

Full Idea

Hegel's 'dialectic' is often characterised in terms of the triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. This is, however, not the way he presents it. The core of the dialectic is rather what Hegel terms the 'negation of the negation'.

Gist of Idea

Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation'

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Andrew Bowie - Introduction to German Philosophy

Book Reference

Bowie,Andrew: 'Introduction to German Philosophy' [Polity 2003], p.84


A Reaction

Interestingly, this connects it to debates about intuitionist logic, which denies that double-negation necessarily makes a positive. Presumably Marx emphasised the first reading.