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Comment: “Contradiction is the very moving principle of the world.” (Hegel)

  • UPSC 1996
  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence comes from §119 of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic (in William Wallace's translation), which adds that "it is ridiculous to say that contradiction is unthinkable". It restates the Science of Logic (1812–16), where contradiction is "the root of all movement and vitality". Against the logic running from Aristotle, Hegel makes contradiction not…

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