Dialectic was contradictory in meaning from its very origin between Plato and Aristotle

Evidence

The very grandeur of logical deductions may inadvertently take on a provincial quality. Benjamin’s writings are an attempt in ever new ways to make philosophically fruitful what has not yet been foreclosed by great intentions. The task he bequeathed was not to abandon such an attempt to the estranging enigmas of thought alone, but to bring the intentionless within the realm of concepts: the obligation to think at the same time dialectically and undialectically. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 170 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Each in relation to the other lets go (läßt … ab) of the independent determinateness with which it comes forth against it. This letting-go (dies Ablassen) is the same renunciation (dasselbe Verzichttun) of the one-sidedness of the concept that in itself constituted the beginning. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1089 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Aristotle adds negativity to the Idea not as change but as difference — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 479; Thinking must hold dialectic and its opposite together at once — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 170; Philosophical propositions dialectically preserve, suppress, and present their cancelled form (+6 more)

Related

• The dialectic is primordial and contains its own contradiction from its origin (similarity 0.86)
• Hegel invented the dialectic as a movement of establishing and vanishing determinations (similarity 0.85)
• Dialectics works by letting an opponent’s standpoint move itself to contradiction (similarity 0.85)
• Letting-go of one-sidedness is itself the renunciation that began the dialectic (similarity 0.84)
• The concept of dialectic was already internally contradictory at its Greek birth (similarity 0.84)
• Aristotle adds negativity to the Idea not as change but as difference (similarity 0.84)
• Skeptical dialectic shows equal necessity for contradictory determinations, yielding nullity (similarity 0.82)
• Negative dialectics theorizes why dialectical thinking is both indispensable and impossible (similarity 0.81)
• The dialectic is primordial and itself the origin, with nothing preceding it. (similarity 0.81)
• Thinking must hold dialectic and its opposite together at once (similarity 0.81)
• Negative dialectics rejects systematic progression in favor of releasing the non-identical (similarity 0.80)
• Ordinary propositions transform into philosophical ones through a triple dialectical movement. (similarity 0.79)
• Faith and knowledge relations evolve through three dialectical stages into philosophy (similarity 0.79)
• Dialectic’s essential-accidental oscillation proves its speculative content for Hegel (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel innovated by defining dialectic as simultaneous arising and disappearing (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Hegel invented the dialectic as a movement of establishing and vanishing determinations #contradicts (0.80)
• Thinking must hold dialectic and its opposite together at once #qualifies (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 170
• Letting-go of one-sidedness is itself the renunciation that began the dialectic #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1089
• Philosophical propositions dialectically preserve, suppress, and present their cancelled form #expands (0.72)
• Hegelian dialectic is systematically non-transcendental because it admits no outside #complicates (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 274
• Plato erroneously assimilated all forms of knowledge into mathematics #complicates (0.72) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 718
• Ambedkar rejected Plato’s tripartite soul because caste’s guardians would oppress the producers. #exemplifies (0.72)