Political Science · Western Political Thought
Hegel borrowed his dialectical method from:
ASocrates ✓ Correct
BMarx
CCicero
DImmanuel Kant
Correct answer: (A) Socrates — Hegel borrowed his dialectical method from Socrates, so the answer is Socrates.
Explanation
★Hegel borrowed his dialectical method from Socrates, so the answer is Socrates.
★Socrates first developed dialectic as a method of reaching truth through discussion.
★He drew out truth by setting opposing arguments against one another in dialogue.
★Hegel himself acknowledged his debt to this Socratic way of reasoning.
★He recast it as the movement from a thesis to its antithesis and on to a higher synthesis.
★This forward march through contradiction became the engine of Spirit in his system.
★Marx later inherited this Hegelian dialectic but placed it on a materialist base.
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