Dialectics Sample Clauses

Dialectics. 2.1. Xxxxxxx’s dialectical turn and MELD We have discussed the first stage of critical realism in terms of its characteristic of agential- centred explanation. In discussing Xxxxxxx’s dialectical turn we will continue to explore the question, ‘is agential centredness persistent here or is there increased significance of the non-agential moment? The original critical realism (transcendental realism and critical naturalism) stresses the central role of ‘being (ontology) … in our understanding of how knowledge (epistemology) is possible’ in terms of the causal powers of natural necessities in natural and social beings. To take a being’s essence and the ways of being as the ground of possibility of knowledge is sometimes termed by Xxxxxxx ‘the reality principle’. So, it is a form of explanation that takes being as central (Norrie, 2010, p.7), called here an agential-centred explanation of being. But the agential-centred being should not be understood as static or confined in itself. Rather, it is dynamic and characterised by change; change not in the sense of Xxxxx’s difference but of a real change. Thus, having established his philosophy on ontology of being, in his dialectical turn Xxxxxxx’s major task is to explain the real change of being to becoming.57 Here, one should note that the third characteristic feature of being-centredness of transcendental realism shown in the above table should not be considered as the simple process of realisation of what is implicit in being, as in a case where the focus and possibility are given entirely to being itself, or a case that is eventually concerned with the realisation of that being in spite of those negative constraints; or as in a process in which identity is achieved in its totality through 57 At the outset of his Dialectics, Xxxxxxx indicates the three objectives of the book: ‘the dialectical enrichment and deepening of critical realism’, to develop a general theory of dialectic through engagement with critical realism, and to outline ‘the elements of a totalizing critique of western philosophy’ (Xxxxxxx, 2008, p.2). With the discovery of the concept of absence or negation which renders dialectical exploration of ‘being to becoming’, Xxxxxxx is able to take these three objectives in his dialectical work (Xxxxxxx, 2007, p.26). dialectical course. This type of process is a typical form of Hegelian dialectics of thought, not the real dialectic, which consists of three elements: identity, negativity and totality (...