The materialist dialectical method is a philosophical investigative method to analyze aspects of reality. These aspects are viewed as complex processes composed by basic units named poles, which interact with each other. Dialectics has experienced considerable progress in the 19th century, with Hegel’s dialectics and, in the 20th century, with the works of Marx, Engels, and Gramsci, in Philosop...

Abstract In ‘The making of argumentation theory’ van Eemeren and Haaften describe the contributions made to five components a full-fledged research program theory by four prominent approaches discipline: formal dialectics, rhetoric/pragmalinguistics, informal logic, pragma-dialectics. Most these do not contribute all components, but some in particular. Starting from pragma-dialectical view rela...

This article explores why engineering students are committed to counterproductive practices. Student informants’ work practices appeared to coincide with lay stereotypes about what “good engineers” do, and they sought to justify those practices as rational. This externalization encouraged them to perform these practices more frequently. We characterize the relationship between the enactment of ...

Abstract Zwart uses Hegel’s dialectical method to develop a methodology for assessing biology as technoscience during the Anthropocene. In this paper I will evaluate use of Hegelian dialectics in biology. first elaborate meaning “Dialectics”. This helps me Zwart’s scientific from perspective “Dialectics” and praxis Finally, oppose claim that synthetic cell is an appropriate case study demonstra...