[MD] D i a l e c t i c

[MarshaV]

Socrates favoured _truth_ as the highest value, proposing that it could be discovered through reason and logic in discussion: ergo, dialectic. Socrates valued rationality (appealing to logic, not emotion) as the proper means for persuasion, the discovery of truth, and the determinant for one's actions. To Socrates, _truth_, not _aretē_, was the greater good, and each person should, above all else, seek truth to guide one's life. 

Wiki "dialectics"


On May 16, 2013, at 12:08 AM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

>  It is generally thought dialectics has become 
> central to "Continental" philosophy, while it 
> plays no part in "Anglo-American" philosophy. 
> In other words, on the continent of Europe, 
> dialectics has entered intellectual culture as 
> what might be called a legitimate part of thought 
> and philosophy, whereas in America and Britain, 
> the dialectic plays no discernible part in the 
> intellectual culture, which instead tends toward 
> positivism.
>  
> Google "positivism"
>  
> .. 
>