Dialectic and Dialogue

✍ Scribed by Dmitri Nikulin

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two. It moves from Plato, for whom dialectic is necessary to destroy incorrect theses and attain thinkable being, to Cusanus, to modern philosophers—Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher and Gadamer, for whom dialectic becomes the driving force behind the constitution of a rational philosophical system. Conceived as a logical enterprise, dialectic strives to liberate itself from dialogue, which it views as merely accidental and even disruptive of thought, in order to become a systematic or scientific method. The Cartesian autonomous and universal yet utterly monological and lonely subject requires dialectic alone to reason correctly, yet dialogue, despite its unfinalizable and interruptive nature, is what constitutes the human condition.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1. In the Beginning: Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato......Page 16
2. Dialectic: Via Antiqua......Page 38
3. Dialectic: Via Moderna......Page 63
4. Dialogue: A Systematic Outlook......Page 87
5. Dialogue: Interruption......Page 110
6. Against Writing......Page 134
(Dialectical) Conclusion......Page 168
Notes......Page 172