Hegel believed that mankind’s destiny was to progress to a point called the Absolute, in which all people are united in a higher, spiritual understanding. The stone which was set at nought by the scientific builders of the nineteenth century is become the head of the corner. Dialectics is a method of finding a common truth between two opposing viewpoints, and was invented by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in the 19th century.
We have found a need for dialectic, for the logic of philosophy. MacGregor, David Edward Stephen (1978) Studies in the concept of ideology: from the Hegelian dialectic to western Marxism. Mathematical discoveries, which have caused a revolution in our mode of conceiving the physical universe, and the discoveries of the new psychology, which have profoundly changed our mode of conceiving the mind, have necessitated a reconsideration of what is implied in the experimental method. The Hegelian Dialectic originated with George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), a nineteenth century school teacher, philosopher. It is a living work to-day because, more than at any previous time, the problem of the methodology of science is in the forefront. The pattern of Problem-Reaction-Solution is The Hegelian Dialectic, a repeating pattern that plays out in reality: 1) Create a problem, 2) Foment a reaction (of anger or sympathy), and 3) Roll out the solution. Most of this book was originally presented in papers read and discussed at the Aristotelian Society in the early 'nineties and published in Mind, for at that time the Society did not publish Proceedings.
His own view would seem to be that the ultimate reality is a unity of personalities, but that this unity is not itself a personality. McTaggart reaches would be accepted probably even by the most convinced Hegelians, namely, the conclusion that the logic is of permanent value and the dialectic sound, but that the metaphysic is unsatisfactory and cannot be final. It contains the best exposition of the dialectic, and the best defence of the dialectic, and the best criticism of it by any living writer. McTaggart's Hook on its first appearance now lays it down, having read it again from beginning to end. An interpretive method in which the seeming contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and some opposing proposition (antithesis) is resolved at a higher. This is the feeling with which one who read Dr. IT is curious that a book which professed only to be a study of Hegel, and deals with criticisms of the Hegelian method and principle current more than thirty years ago, should be reprinted to-day and present the same freshness and vigour to the reader now as it did then.