Justin Burke




So Hegel obviously has a high opinion of both ancient Greek philosophers, but if we take into account that in part one of the Encyclopedia (Logic), Hegel says:The development of philosophic science as science, and, further, the progress from the Socratic point of view to the scientific, begins with Plato and is completed by Aristotle. They of all others deserve to be called teachers of the human race. (Haldane/Simson translation, 1894, vol. 2, p. 1)
(Encyclopedia Logic, Brinkmann/Dahlstrom translation, 2010, §81 Z1)Plato is called the inventor of the dialectic, and rightfully so, insofar as in the Platonic philosophy the dialectic occurs for the first time in its free, scientific and thus at the same time objective form.
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