When Hegel said his concepts, “are in truth, self-moving functions, circles,” he revealed the main tools of his dialectical theory. The components that make up the circles are the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Understanding one aspect of the circle only leaves a half circle. The greater understanding is seeing the full circle. Knowing the thesis means there must be an opposite that further explains the thesis. Once the thesis is completed by the antithesis, then there leaves the synthesis gained by the former and the latter. This sequence of events is hard to imagine for the average person and Hegel illustrates this concept as a, “circle of circles.”
Hegel and Predecessors
Hegel and Predecessors
Hegel and Predecessors
When Hegel said his concepts, “are in truth, self-moving functions, circles,” he revealed the main tools of his dialectical theory. The components that make up the circles are the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Understanding one aspect of the circle only leaves a half circle. The greater understanding is seeing the full circle. Knowing the thesis means there must be an opposite that further explains the thesis. Once the thesis is completed by the antithesis, then there leaves the synthesis gained by the former and the latter. This sequence of events is hard to imagine for the average person and Hegel illustrates this concept as a, “circle of circles.”