Questions and Tasks for Self-Control:
What two meanings does the term dialectics have?
What are historical forms of dialectics?
How many principles of dialectics do you know?
How can you characterize development?
Which two aspects of the surrounding world does historism imply?
Does the universe have a code of laws of its own?
How can we classify laws?
What does the law of the transformation of quantity into quality reveal? Explain its relation with the law of the unity and struggle of opposites?
What is negation? How is it correlated with the law of the unity and struggle of opposites?
Can the laws of dialectics substitute some single scientific laws? If yes or no, then why?
Give your account to the categories of dialectics?
How are the categories of dialectics correlated with the laws of dialectics?
Literature:
Basic:
Alexander Spirkin. Fundamentals of Philosophy / Alexander Spirkin. — M. : Progress Publishers, 1990. — 423 p.
The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy / Edward Craig. – New York : Routledge, 2005. — 1077 p.
Supplementary:
Bertell Ollman. Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method / Bertell Ollman. — Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2003. — 232 p.
Primary Sources:
Friedrich Engels. Dialectic's of Nature. — Eelectronic resource : http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ index.htm.
Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel. Science of Logic / Georg Hegel : [transl. by George di Giovanni]. — New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 790 p.
George Edward Novack. An Introduction to the Logic of Marxism / George Novack. — New York, Merit Publishers, 1966. — 124 p.
Vagueness: a reader / Rosanna Keefe, Peter Smith. Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, 1996. — 352 p.