
Contradiction
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The Shorthand for Dialectics
The thesis and synthesis, if people are hearing this for the first time or if they know a little bit about Hegel, that is understood, I think, widely as that's dialectics. But what you said, and it's important point to expand upon, is that understanding Hegel as a philosopher of synthesis, like taking that movement, literally, it actually obscures dialectics, right? " Dialectics is not about solving the problem," he says. 'It's a movement of a movement toward increasing the problem'
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