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Explain Hegel’s theory of dialectical idealism.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Western Political Thought

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Dialectical idealism is the name for the system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, built in the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), the Science of Logic (1812–16), the Encyclopaedia (1817) and the Philosophy of Right (1820). It joins two claims: ultimate reality is Spirit or Idea (idealism), and Spirit develops through internal contradiction (dialectic). Nature, history and…

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  • The Idealist Premise
  • The Dialectical Mechanism
  • Applications
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