Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET June 2019 Political Science
Dialectic method was used for the first time in the writing of which one of the following thinkers?
ASocrates
BPlato ✓ Correct
CHegel
DMarx
Correct answer: (B) Plato — The dialectic method, as a written form of philosophy, first appears with Plato.
Explanation
★The dialectic method, as a written form of philosophy, first appears with Plato.
★Plato cast almost all his philosophy as dialogues, in which speakers with opposing views reach truth through question and answer.
★Although Socrates practised this cross-examination orally, he wrote nothing, so the method enters the written record through Plato.
★Plato's dialectic ascends from particular opinions to the universal Forms and finally to the Form of the Good.
★The Republic, the Phaedrus, and the Symposium are leading examples of this dialectical writing.
★Plato's idealist dialectic is distinct from Hegel's movement of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis and from Marx's dialectical materialism.
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