Question

How does an understanding of the Hegelian dialectics (synthesis) increase your understanding of the writings of Benjamin Barber, Jeremy Rifkin, Karl Marx, and Martin Luther King? Provide specific examples.

Answer 1

Hegelian dialectic is described as an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis). It involves three parts to itself, the thesis which is a research based proposition, antithesis which is an opposite idea, but with equal amount of groundwork, and finally a reconcilation through a mutual consensus in a third proposition, i.e. the synthesis. The work of the given contemporary thinkers is linked to the concept due to their vast research oriented work that developed through repeated trial and error. All the scholars such as Benjamin Barber, Jeremy Rifkin, Karl Marx, and Martin Luther King had their arena of work challenged, modified and translated into different modules altogether This process of challenging their own pieces of work and modifying the same into synthesis culminating out of the previous research works was a characeristic feature of their findings.