Dialectical Approach to Understanding Reality

By Habte Micael

To achieve a new and better order of society, the oppressed society need not allow their oppressors to represent them in the nation. When you realize the members of the ruling class are putting down and crushing the people through parliament, it is the real essence of the evidence that the dictatorship character represses very hard in the parliament. Dictatorship is a rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The role of the oppressed societies need to be organized for the necessity of revolution to defeat dictatorship ideology as it can never be solved by reformation according the revolutionary theory. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Most people are not achieving their dreams because they are living in their fears. Achievement is the product of conscious decisions and action that can challenge the tragedy of life. Action, clarity and dare create the achievement of the required goal.

Teach about what matters. Our job is to excite students and adult learners about the world, to help them see the role that they can play in making society more equal and more just, to express their ideas powerfully, to see that social and historical materialism studies is about real people lives and about their relationship to each other and to nature to be enlightened. No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come. Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, one hundred percent. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person, no longer oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BooxAi
• Release date: Feb 21, 2024
• ISBN: 9789655787665

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Dialectical Approach to Understanding Reality

Habte Micael

Dialectical Approach to Understanding Reality

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Think and Act Dialectically for Basic Change of Life

Thinking and acting dialectically is the only clear way to understand reality; whether thoughts, emotions, or the material world. When dialectics theorize materialism, the combination of both dialectics and matter is a methodology of dialectical materialism, the foundation of the great philosophers. Generally, dialectical means universal laws of motion, development, and change of nature, society, and social ideas including new phenomena and progress of the objective world. dialectical refers to the balance between opposites. Dialectical thinking encourages us to consider that different things, which seem like opposites, can coexist and that they can combine to create a "new truth. 

Dialectics does not accept anything as an absolute. It continuously asks dialectical questions for more research in any situation. This research helps people in a relationship can move into a more open, flexible stance. There is always more than one side to anything that exists. You can begin thinking and acting dialectically to find a new way to respond to your emotions, behaviors, or others in your relationships. This will help you find balance in your life and make changes to improve your life. When you begin to think dialectically, you begin to act dialectically too and this can be a real game changer. You begin to see the bigger picture which helps you plan things and make informed decisions. You become more adaptable and resilient. You become more emphatic toward others and yourself. You become more responsive rather than reactive.

Dialectical thinking develops better control over your thoughts and emotions and emotional intelligence. Your conscious mind improves and so will your cognitive abilities. You will also become more self-aware. You begin to think out of the box as you realize there is more than one way to solve a problem. This also helps boost your creativity. You become more responsive rather than reactive. You develop better control over your thoughts and emotions. This helps you develop your emotional intelligence. Our conscious mind improves and so will our cognitive abilities. We will also become more self-aware. You begin to think out of the box as you realize there is more than one way to solve a problem. This also helps boost your creativity. You start focusing on the solutions rather than the problem. You become open to learning and growing instead of holding on to rigid beliefs and ideas. You start talking about responsibility for your life instead of playing the blame game. This is the basis of self-growth. You bring more balance and wisdom into your life as you are not thinking or acting in extremes.

Developing dialectical thinking in social life: To develop dialectic thinking, we need to start observing our own thoughts. In another way, we need to start looking into our thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, ideas, and perceptions from the perspective of a third person. When we do this, we are basically beginning to engage our conscious mind to question our unconscious thoughts and beliefs. Observing our thoughts this way will be a little difficult in the beginning. Understanding deeply and working slowly, analyze one rigid belief that we hold in our mind and try to look at it from a different perspective. The more we do this the easier it will be for us to turn dialectic thinking into an automatic habit.

Dialectical thinking may not make any sense at first. How can someone both want to be a mother and not want to have children? It is normal to have conflicting feelings about a situation. And with dialectical thinking, you do not have to choose one of those thoughts and ignore the others. You can hold them both at the same time. Dialectical thinking helps us to be more open-minded because we do not feel the need to defend our opinions so aggressively. Instead, we listen curiously to other ideas of people and see if they help us develop our own perspective.

As dialectic is the universal law of motion in the objective world, its interconnection with matter is to be dialectical materialism. A philosophical approach to reality derived from the writings of the philosopher Karl Marx: the material world, perceptible to the senses, has an objective reality independent of mind or spirit. They did not deny the reality of mental or spiritual processes but affirmed that ideas could arise, therefore, only as products and reflections of material conditions. It is clearly understood that materialism is the opposite of idealism, by which they meant any theory that treats matter as dependent on mind or spirit, or mind or spirit as capable of existing independently of matter. For the philosophers, the materialist and idealist views were irreconcilably opposed throughout the historical development of philosophy. They adopted a thoroughgoing materialist approach, holding that any attempt to combine or reconcile materialism with idealism must result in confusion and inconsistency.

The philosopher`s conception of dialectics is the opposite of the metaphysical mode of thought, which views things in abstraction, each by itself and as though endowed with fixed properties. Dialectical logicians consider things in their movements and changes, interrelations, and interactions. Everything is in continual process of becoming and ceasing to be, in which nothing is permanent but everything changes and is eventually superseded.

All things contain contradictory sides or aspects, whose tension or conflict is the driving force of change and eventually transforms or dissolves them. The theory of knowledge started from the materialist premise that all knowledge is derived from the senses. But against the mechanistic view that derives knowledge exclusively from given sense impressions, they stressed the dialectical development of human knowledge, socially acquired in the course of practical activity. Individuals can gain knowledge of things only through their practical interaction with those things, framing their ideas corresponding to their practice; and social practice alone provides the test of the correspondence of idea with reality of truth. In the next chapter of this book, dialectics will deeply direct us to the branches of science such as sociology, ideology, social science, political science, and so on to approach them dialectically. Science is any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws. Science can be divided into different branches based on the subject of studies  like anthropology, economics, physics, and the study of political, ideological, ethical, logical, biological, chemical, social, and cultural aspects of human behaviour.

1 Dimensions of life change 

Dialectical theories help us understand many of the predictable changes that happen to us, especially as young adults. Personal changes can happen as part of the developmental stages. But life change is much richer and much less predictable. Extensive research has related life change to the onset and intensity of physical and mental illness. Attention has recently been focused on the dimensions of life change (i.e., the significance of the degree of change vs. the desirability of the change) with conflicting results. The purpose of dimensions of life change reveals that life change has three dimensions: the degree of change evoked, the desirability of the change, and the life area in which the event occurs. The analysis also indicates that while the life change data are multidimensional, the quantitative dimension (degree of life change) is more primary than the qualitative dimension (desirability of life change and area of life change).

Several theories allow us to explain organizational change and development. These proposals can be grouped in different ways. According to a framework designed under mode of change criteria and "unit of change criteria, we define four ideal change engines (1) life cycle theories, (2) evolutionary theories, (3) dialectical theories, and (4) teleological theories. First of all, we will describe each of them:

Stage-one-theories:

Dialectical Theories: (change because of conflict)

These theories are characterized by the assumption that organizations exist in a plural world of forces and events constantly shocking and competing for domination and control. This opposition can be treated not only from an internal perspective but also taking into account the external forces of the organization. In these theories stability and change are explained by the balance between power and opposing forces. Changes are produced when one of the forces excels and breaks the status quo. There are two main approaches in this current: The Hegelian perspective of permanent conflict between the thesis/antithesis and the attainment of a synthesis as an outcome. Stage two theories: Lifecycle Theories: (regulated change). Stage two theories:

This theory adapts the metaphor/analogy of organic growth to organizational context as a tool that permits us to explain different stages of development. Some theories can be framed in this group: developmentalism, ontogenesis, and metamorphosis according to lifecycle, we can state three fundamental groups: Developmental model: Change happens during a cycle always composed of the emergency stage, growth stage, maturity stage, and decline stage. Scenario model: It assumes the previous sequence of development but modifies it introducing different phases where the managers make decisions. Metamorphosis model: It is halfway between theories of development and evolutionary theories. They postulate that changes occur when the structure of the organization does not fit the environment. In development, theories are the key to successful internal restructuring, while in metamorphosis models they state that change occurs abruptly rather than gradually. There is a misunderstanding in presuming that evolutionary models only undergo soft and incremental changes in an organization. There is no pre-established rate of change in evolutionary models. In this way, metamorphosis models can be classified as a specific case of an evolutionary model. Another kind of division could be composed according to whether the generative mechanism is regulated by natural, logical, or institutional norms. If the mechanism is regulated by natural or logical forces, determinism is much greater than if it is by institutional ones. These theories emphasize a lot the sequentially well-defined and unavoidable stages. Where each one of the