单词 | dialectics |
释义 | dialecticsn. With singular and plural agreement. 1. = dialectic n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical disputation or dialectics > [noun] dialectica1382 dialectical1528 dialect?1545 wit-craft1573 logic1601 dialectics1641 logism1656 dialecticism1840 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 10 Bishop Downam in his Dialecticks will tell you [etc.]. 1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant ii. 24 Dur. But we were talking of Dialecticks. Bis. Hang Dialecticks. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. lii. 263 The human faculties are fortified by the art and practice of dialectics. 1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 224 You will pardon my unskilfulness in dialectics. 1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 336 The dialectics of those times afford no specimens of reasoning more acute than the examinations of the martyrs. 1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens III. xiv. viii. 112 If Henry wearied of dialectics. 1951 R. A. Hall Short Hist. Ital. Lit. 261 The words Jesuitry and Jesuitical have become proverbial in reference to dishonestly subtle dialectics and hypocritical condonement of evil practice. 2010 E. A. Hagan Goodbye Yeats & O'Neill 8 He [sc. Nietzsche] takes dead aim against Socratic dialectics and delineates the superior role of the artist. 2. a. In Idealist philosophy, esp. Hegelian thought: = dialectic n.1 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [noun] > Hegelianism > elements of dialectic1797 idea1838 logic1838 Dasein1846 dialectics1851 Aufhebung1853 sublation1859 synthesis1896 1851 Internat. Monthly Mag. Apr. 27/1 He never forgets the Hegelian dialectics even when he writes novels. 1873 N. Amer. Rev. July 57 Hegel's dialectics rest entirely on this doctrine, and are essentially trinitarian. 1951 Amer. Scientist Apr. 302/2 The influence of Fichte's dialectics and Kantian thought on the development of Hegel's philosophy. 1989 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 48 55 The search for truth—the only way to set a person free—takes the form of Hegelian dialectics. 2001 A. Gat Hist. Mil. Thought viii. 236 From his youth Clausewitz had come in contact with the dialectics of Fichte, Schleiermacher and, perhaps, Schelling. b. In Marxist thought: a system or method which explains change in the natural world and, above all, in the world of human history and society, in terms of the conflict of material forces, esp. in interpreting political and historical events as a series of contradictions and their solutions, arising from the conflict of social forces, which are seen as caused by material needs. Also more generally: the existence or action of opposing social forces. Cf. dialectical materialism n. at dialectical n. and adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [noun] corporealism1678 materialism1678 somatisma1731 hypophysicsa1834 dialectics1887 1887 S. Moore & E. Aveling tr. K. Marx Capital I. Pref. p. xxxi Crisis is once again approaching..and by the universality of its theatre and the intensity of its action it will drum dialectics [Ger. Dialektik] even into the heads of the mushroom-upstarts of the new, holy Prusso-German empire. 1925 tr. N. Bukharin Hist. Materialism iii. 75 For Marx, dialectics means evolution by means of contradictions. 1953 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Dec. ‘Dialectics’, that magic word which nowadays too often gives an aura of perfection to the most outrageous obscurities and rhapsodizings..and not only among Marxists. 1967 Listener 3 Aug. 140/3 Attempts to formulate the rules of dialectics usually result in arid scholasticism. Dialectics is indeed the grammar of Marxist thinking. 1983 J. Thrower Marxist-Leninist ‘Scientific Atheism’ i. 86 Once..we accept the dynamic theory of matter inherent in both modern science and in dialectics, [etc.]. 2011 D. McNally Global Slump v. 125 The deep structural issue, in other words, has to do with the dialectics of race and class in a neoliberal capitalism increasingly reliant on debt-fuelled spending. 2012 Morning Star (Nexis) 9 Mar. His work..alludes to politics obliquely in pieces introducing Lenin on dialectics and a tribute to Marx's Christmas in Soho's Dean Street. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1641 |
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