Dialectical Thinking (Part 1): Origins of the Search for Truth, Consequences for Fundamental Theory

This video is the first part in a three part video series on dialectical thinking. In this first part we first explore the problem at the foundation of the introduction of dialectical logic. This problem includes the emergence of subjects who claim absolute knowledge which is internally contradictory (i.e. two subjects who both claim contradictory absolute knowing). In order to reconcile the difference between real truth and opinion, dialectical logic actively searches for contradiction, incoherence and opposition in order to develop a better understanding of truth. From this search it was discovered that there is actually no absolute position. However, this truth was only properly instantiated historically with the emergence of the Kantian system of thought, which operationalizes a distinction between phenomena and noumena. Phenomena are human perceptions and abstractions, noumena is the absolute reality of the things-in-themselves. For Kant we do not have access to the things-in-themselves, but only the "antinomies" (contradictions, incoherence, oppositions) of our phenomena. This system was further advanced by Hegel who says rational antinomies exist, not as a consequence of our distance from the thing-in-itself, but as evidence for our unity with the thing-in-itself. Thus, in Hegelian dialectics we mediate the becoming of the thing-in-itself via the active engagement with rational antinomies. This dialectical approach to truth is not inscribed into the contemporary field of knowledge, but could be beneficial and practical to deal with contradictions and oppositions between science and the humanities, classical and quantum physics, as well as evolutionary theory as applied to the human world. When we think in these terms the truth of all of these contradictions and oppositions will be found in a transformation towards new differences that obliterate the currently stable distinctions. From these transformations we will get an ever deeper understanding of the field of truth and our involvement with its becoming.

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