In DBT the emphasis is
on the dialectic balance between acceptance and change; though these concepts seem opposite, we need to flow between the two to get out of our «stuck» places.
Article by By Dana Lasek, Ph.d., HSPP focused
on Dialectic Behavioral Therapy
Lutheran theology rests
on the dialectic of law and gospel.
Some might suggest, however, that the emphasis
on that dialectic in this book manifested Richard's keen political sense that, given changes in American politics, he needed to assume a position of the «outsider.»
Olga uses new media as a means of expressing her own system of poetics based
on the dialectics of high and low academism: where the artist endeavors to strike a balance between high - style classical models and contemporary elements of abstraction.
Not exact matches
Mike — it makes good headlines to predict imminent collapse as Joe granvile taught us but I will not be a purveyor of pablum but always strive to offer quality analysis that leads to high level
dialectic and hopefully profitable opportunities.The central bank fears of of disinflation will be an
on going theme.
The last article of his that I read, moments before learning of his death, was his piece in the February issue of First Things called «
On Loving the Law of God,» an engaging essay (responding to one by Gilbert Meilaender) on the law - and - gospel dialectic of Lutheranis
On Loving the Law of God,» an engaging essay (responding to one by Gilbert Meilaender)
on the law - and - gospel dialectic of Lutheranis
on the law - and - gospel
dialectic of Lutheranism.
Richard's emphasis in American Babylon
on the necessary
dialectic between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world is not a new theme in his work.
Luther was intensely aware of the traditional Augustinian
dialectics of this problem, and works them out with great care in the Lectures
on Romans (1515 — 1516).
And I have sought to show, using Hartshorne as a concrete example, how a dialectical defense provides the ultimate support for one's claims about experience and its essential temporality and how that
dialectic rests
on claims quite remote from any direct or straightforward reading of experience, whether private or public.
IN HIS CELEBRATED 1948 essay
on detective fiction, «The Guilty Vicarage,» W.H. Auden argued that the appeal of crime novels lies in their «
dialectic of innocence and guilt.»
Sir Sayyid urged the Muslims to develop a new science of
dialectics to counter the atheistic trends produced by Western civilization, and in 1292 (A.D. 1875) he wrote a commentary
on the Qur» an in which he rejected the conception of Islam as a code of rules and regulations which, he said, can not stand the test of scientific scrutiny.
Altizer,
on the other hand, has a Dionysian, fully
dialectic theology that, by radical affirmation of the profane, goes beyond mere secularism and its Godlessness and discovers the sacred via a nonhubristic apotheosis.
2 Shalom: For the beginnings of such a theory, see my essays «
On the Structure of the Person: Time and Consciousness» (in
Dialectics and Humanism, Journal of the Polish Academy of Science, 1975) and, more particularly, «The Problem of the Person: Philosophy and the Neurologists» (to appear in
Dialectics and Humanism, 1979).
... A plague
on Aristotle who taught
dialectic!»
In his essay
on Boehme in 1901 Buber writes that Boehme's
dialectic of the reciprocal conditioning of things finds its completion in Ludwig Feuerbach's sentence: «Man with man — the unity of I and Thou — is God.»
But these rudimentary and altogether primitive speculations
on certain religious problems soon assumed larger proportions when Muslim scholars who were skilled in the art of
dialectic and tolerably conversant with Greek philosophy appeared
on the scene.
Third, the lecture will deal with a few of the methodological issues in the advocacy scholarship of liberation theologies and how this scholarship corresponds with the turn to
dialectics and praxis in contemporary philosophical reflections
on science.
That goal is the expression,
on the level of duty, of the demand, the claim — the Verlangen — which constitutes pure reason in its speculative and practical use; reason «demands the absolute totality of conditions for a given conditioned thing» (beginning of the
Dialectic of the Critique of Practical Reason).
The sophisms of the substantiality of the «I» even today retain a particular luster, along with the Nietzschean and Freudian critiques of the subject; it is not without importance to find the root and philosophical meaning of them in the Kantian
dialectic; this latter has condemned in advance any claim to dogmatize
on personal existence and knowledge of the person; the person is manifested only in the practical act of treating it as an end and not merely as a means.
The judgment
on biblical criticism is not, then, that it doesn't work, but that it has «got stuck» in the second moment of the
dialectic of understanding.
Granting this, it also must be stressed that with Heraclitus dialectical thinking would not be struggling to overcome the law of contradiction, because reality itself was polemos, eris, enantios.7 Altizer sees with Cassirer and Heidegger that Seinvergessenheit and the logic - ization of logos came in after Heraclitus, but he insists
on using a tainted
dialectic which in effect assigns metaphysical primacy to post-Parmenidean concepts of contradiction.
Their use of
dialectic, says Altizer, was limited to an attack
on secular expressions of faith, and thus it could not offer any new vision of the sacred.1 For Altizer, any dialectical method that is not fully dialectical is not dialectical at all.
Consequently, this letting go takes up from and continues the Kantian meditation
on the transcendental illusion as presented in the section
on «
Dialectic» in the first Critique.
But Noel's real complaint seems to be that my dialectical method is tainted because it fails to return to the natural
dialectic of Heraclitus and insists
on assigning metaphysical primacy to post-Parmenidean concepts of contradiction.
So Marx set out to put the
dialectic back
on its feet.
In later life Marx cherished the thought of writing a short treatise
on the Hegelian
dialectic and his relation to it.
Luther's use of
dialectic («man is totally free... man is absolutely bound») to reach the existential affirmation that it was only through grace that man could take the smallest step at all towards anything spiritually good, enunciated with Luther's dogmatism, seemed to be an attack
on the whole civilised Christian tradition of good letters: devoted, refined and peaceful.
Despite the many books that continue to be published
on the topic, «New Testament ethics» is a misleading category, confusing historical constructions with normative judgments, eliding difficult questions about the nature of a scriptural canon, and above all failing to take with sufficient seriousness the
dialectic between the formation of a community and the development of the community's norms of belief and behavior.»
Instead of relying
on scientific arguments for the rationalization of the Buddhist experience they are at present trying to resort to its own
dialectics.»
Albert Camus has commented in his The Myth of Sisyphus
on Kierkegaard's
dialectic turning away from despair toward faith.
Niesslein knew women deserved a more intelligent and realistic take
on motherhood: something that packed more brain power than Barney versus Pooh
dialectics.
This consensus confines the space for political
dialectics to a discussion
on the capacity or incapacity of the ruling government to deliver or not what they all agree, which conveniently diverts attention from the politician to the bureaucrat and in due course will bring to yet another restructuring of the Home Office's immigration sector.
I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or
dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so
on.
And these
dialectics may vary in their nature, depending
on the respective power and influence of the relevant players.
An Arab
dialectic seems possible instead of a unified discourse
on change and transitions.
Arguments can be pursued, and it's unlikely that a generous mind would regard that full -
on, combative
dialectic would ever produce anything interesting, no extended conversations with people who are smarter than you.
I see the both 7/7 & riots as one more example of how government uses Hegelian
Dialectic (problem - reaction - solution) to impose it's agenda
on the people.
In Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy, Sovacool, Brown, and Valentine make clever use of the Hegelian
dialectic to take
on 15 core energy questions (e.g., «Do conventional energy resources have a meaningful «peak»?»)
The result is a tense, superbly suspenseful, and very intelligent
dialectic on violence used as a means to an end.
Since Socrates, the word
dialectic has come to focus more
on the types of argument that do produce a synthesis or blend.
These writing - to - learn strategies can include freewriting, focused freewriting, narrative writing, response writing (for example, response logs, starters, or
dialectic notebooks), loop writing (writing
on an idea from different perspectives), and dialogue writing (for example, with an author or a character)(Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, n.d.; Elbow & Belanoff, 1989).
The history of Christianity in the U.S. is a
dialectic of the intellect and the emotions, Wills maintains, in a sweeping chronicle that stands four - square
on church - state separation as the anchor of religious liberty.
In fact, after studying the books that study millionaires, it's fair to say that there's something of a Hegelian
dialectic going
on — you remember: theses, antithesis, synthesis.
Rubins, who has been working with metal trash since the 1970s, has been a forerunner in the recent artistic focus
on trash — the inevitable third step in the 20th century
dialectic of production and consumption.
Significant writing projects, both published in 1937, were the essay «Primitive Art and Picasso» in the Magazine of Art, and the book System and
Dialectics of Art, which outlined his theories
on abstract paintings and provided an international context for American Art for the first time.
More than a meditation
on the vastness of the universe, Hubble # 3 forms part of an incisive inquiry into the
dialectic between photography and drawing, and between object and depiction.
Rooted in
dialectic thinking
on pairs of such relative concepts as «something and nothing» and «gain and loss,» Song seems to have intuitively chosen the tangible yet formless substance of water as the most common subject of his early practices.
The fact that the festival happens
on a street level — essentially asking all visitors to take
on the role of the eternal flaneur (the very concept of which suggests the participant - observer
dialectic)-- breaks down the barriers between gallery and street, art and life.»
If Minimalism had placed value
on industrially produced objects, Italian Arte Povera confronted this technological determination with the value of natural substances and their poetic legacy, engaged in a critical
dialectic.