PHIL 1091 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Demise, Dialectic, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The basic concept of the dialectical triad (thesis, synthesis, antithesis) (diagram 1: thesis + antithesis = synthesis, puritanism + rationalism = american spirit, yellow + blue = green, both ideas come together so they are mutually preserved and destroyed c. the cycle of reaction and rebellion: y actualizes the potentialities inherent in x. (marx"s idea that each economic system sows the seeds of its own destruction. examples?, history of the world is a struggle of ideas, reacting and rebelling, from the ashes of a disco sucks movement, punk was formed, by trying to do everything that wasn"t disco, the ramones gave lead to a new wave , synthesis of disco and punk a little bit of both, but not neither, this cycle repeats forever, as new products are born from the ashes of old ones, examples of economies that sow the seeds.