Hegel’s Dialect: Explanations Through Thesis and Antithesis

Hegel is considered one of the most famous German philosopher’s who wrote and taught during the early 1800’s. Hegel thought that humanity and civilizations was inevitable working towards becoming a free society in hope that this idea and process would spread throughout the world. Many of Hegel’s ideas such as his dialect and triad greatly influenced the 19th century. This movement also translated over into the ideas and findings of people in the new world with liberal and free market democracies who represent the final state of Hegel’s progress. Hegel’s ideas can all be seen as part of a progression and broken down and explained through his teachings and theories, the Hegelian triad, and the legacy that Hegel left behind.

To begin with, many of Hegel’s teaching and theories were influenced by his infatuation with the French Revolution, and the works of other philosophers such as Rousseau, Kant, and Spinoza. Hegel developed a theory that consisted of philosophical contradictions and tensions that interpret themselves as part of a compressive evolution of rational unity all derived between different text in which he called the absolute idea or the absolute knowledge. Hegel proclaimed that the main characteristic of this unity was that it was forever evolving through a manifestation as it contradicted itself as well as providing negation within the same process. The consciousness, history, philosophy, art, nature, and even society have these same vibrant and dynamic virtues that proceeds in every point of its domain of reality and leads to further development until a rational unity is reached between each of the sub parts and up lifts one another with each idea into a higher unity. Many Hegelian scholars have argued that the “Mi...

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...uch as his ideas of the triad. Hegel has seen this progress throughout history as the realization of reason, and therefore meaning God. History is the realization and progress of dialectics where each product turns into another position that is then opposed, and these positions create yet another positive product. Hegel’s ideas were actually incredibly basic and in order to truly understand Hegel, one must read Hegel directly and also in a passive sense by depicting each phase. Hegel’s ideas can all be seen as part of a progression and broken down and explained through his teachings and theories, the Hegelian triad, and the legacy that Hegel left behind. Hegel’s dialect is merely a page of letters that is within a sea of ideas and thoughts thrown about in words and ways that can completely distract a readers mind from what is really beneath the wording on the page.