Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET November 2017 Political Science
Hegel's dialectical method was
ATo build a science of politics
BTo accept the Enlightenment's philosophical method
CTo assert that the methods of natural sciences and those of social sciences were identical
DTo solve the problem of contradiction ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) To solve the problem of contradiction — Hegel's dialectical method was meant to resolve the problem of contradiction, so the answer is the fourth option.
Explanation
★Hegel's dialectical method was meant to resolve the problem of contradiction, so the answer is the fourth option.
★The dialectic moves from a thesis to its opposing antithesis and then to a higher synthesis.
★Each synthesis reconciles the contradiction of the previous stage and becomes a new thesis.
★Through this self-developing movement, thought and history advance toward fuller truth and freedom.
★Hegel's idealist dialectic works on ideas, with reality unfolding as the self-realisation of Spirit.
★Marx later inverted it into dialectical materialism, applying the same logic to material conditions.
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