Dialectic

Plato’s Meno offers a Socratic dialectic discussing the question of virtue between the philosopher Socrates and a young Thessalian aristocrat Meno. Meno asks the following question to be analyzed at length throughout the dialogue: Can virtue be taught? Using the Socratic process, Meno attempts to understand the various complexities associated with that question. In addition, another player, Anytus, an Athenian statesman, serves to not only offer a varying perspective on the matter of virtue, but…

In order to appreciate the central Marxian conception of the dialectic, we must first in the words of Vladimir Lenin, “understand Hegel first”. The main idea of dialectic is the centrality of contradiction, which dialectics believe exist in reality and that the most appropriate way to understand reality is to study the development of those contradictions. Additionally, Hegel used the idea of contradiction to understand historical change and believe that these contradictions could be worked out…

Within this essay, I am going to argue that there is in fact no winner from Hegel’s dialectic of the Master and Slave dialogue. This is due to the Slave gaining more knowledge from its experiences than the Master, although the Master has gained the authoritarian position. Therefore, they are both successful but also must admit defeat in some way such as losing independence as the Master does. However, an obvious objection towards this could be that the Master has still won and has ultimate…

In this paper I will explain dialectic perspective and also explain reality as a motion along with reality as a contradiction. This paper will use “Crash” the movie for examples of dialectic perspective as well as the other things mentioned. Dialectic perspective is appearance and essence may not be the same thing. That is where reality as motion comes in. Motion is just movement through any surface. Reality as motion means that anything in reality is motion. Reality is always in motion.…

In 2001, Michael Haneke directed a film called, The Piano Teacher. Haneke’s view, as conveyed to the viewer, is not to rail against pornography, per se, but to rail against its impact as generated by a capitalist-patriarchal society. This stems from a similar modality of thinking introduced by Linda Williams in 1989, in which she “...moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does…” (Slade 656). Haneke’s method is…

oneself. One of the most important pieces he wrote is called the dialectic of the master and slave. In today’s world, there are many social conflict that can be analyzed by the help of the perspective of Hegel’s master slave dialectic. As a contemporary conflict, I chose racism to analyze it from the perspective of recognition as discussed in Hegel’s master slave dialectic and also Fannon’s view on Slavery. Master Slave Dialectic-Hegel…

The Nelsens’ model which is said to be closer to the Black Church may be called the “dialectic model” of the Black Church. Black Churches are institutions that are involved in a consent series of dialectic tensions. The dialectic holds opposites in tension, constantly shifting between the polarities in historical time. There is no Hegelian synthesis or ultimate resolution of the dialectic. The task of the social analyst is to examine the social conditions of any black church, including the…

The cultural industry is described by Adorno and Horkheimer (1977) as the standardisation of culture and cultural goods, attained through the manipulation of consumers, pseudo-individualism and commercial marketing in order to accomplish an economic and social status. Within Adorno and Horkheimer’s theory, there are three major concepts that have increased the development of the cultural industry and the behaviour of consumers, this involves discussing the transformation of use value to…

Huge department stores such as Macy’s stand for almost everything that Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer despise. Arguably, department stores minimize a person’s capability to act and think in a logical and self-governing manner. Adorno argues that “standardization develops due to the ability of the ‘people in power’ to regulate the manufacturing of cultural goods in order to try and gage and control what people like and want to buy to increase how much profit they make. Furthermore, he states…

In Benjamin’s piece, I was reminded of many of the lectures we have had throughout the lecture. The apparatus mentioned throughout the piece, in both cultural and camera lense forms, reminds me of Leni Riefenstahl. Professor Beebout spoke about how her innovative techniques changed cinema, but her association with the Nazi party casts a large shadow over her contributions. She added to the machine of fascism by creating this larger than life image of Hitler and the “superior race” rather than…