proper dialectic

is internal to concepts or categories : It radically develops the flaws that they contain and makes them 'pass over' into another concept or category: Hegel speaks as if it is the concepts themselves, rather than the thinker, that conduct this operation, and that they change and break down autonomously, except that their 'dialectical movement' (bewegung) is non-temporal.

Proper dialectic, by contrast, is internal to concepts or categories: it radically develops the flaws that they contain and makes them 'pass over' (übergehen) into another concept or category. Hegel often speaks as if it is the concepts themselves, rather than the thinker, that conduct this operation, and that they change and break down autonomously, in the way that things do, except that their 'dialectical movement (Bewegung)' is non-temporal. (Schelling and Kierkegaard criticized him for speaking of the 'movement' of concepts.) He may simply mean that the thinker follows the natural grain of the concepts in exposing their contradictions and proposing solutions to them, but he nevertheless held that there is a parallel between the development of thoughts or concepts and the development of things that implies that dialectic is internal to both. (inwood 1992 : 82)

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proper dialectic