antithesis

The history of any such human endeavor, moreover, not only builds upon but also reacts against what has gone before ; this is the source of Hegel's famous dialectic teaching usually summed up by the slogan " thesis, antithesis, and synthesis ".

The style combines elements of both poetry ( shi ' r ) and rhymed prose ( saj ) and the text contains instances of literary devices like alliteration, assonance, repetition, onomatopoeia, juxtaposition and antithesis, metaphors, alternation of person and personification.

Apologists of Freemasonry contend that, when Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke about the " Luciferian path ," or the " energies of Lucifer ," they were referring to the Morning Star, the light bearer, the search for light ; the very antithesis of dark, satanic evil.

* Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis ( 1938 ), was written as a conscious answer and antithesis to the works of H. G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon.

Nestorianism is a form of dyophysitism, and can be seen as the antithesis to monophysitism, which emerged in reaction to Nestorianism.

Being pressured by his advisers to declare coffee the " bitter invention of Satan " because of its popularity among Muslims and it being a sort of antithesis or substitute for wine ( which was used in the Eucharist ), upon tasting it he instead declared that, " This devil's drink is so delicious ... we should cheat the devil by baptizing it.

" The structure of a dissertation consists in an introduction that elucidates the basic definitions involved in the question as set, followed by an argument or thesis, a counter-argument or antithesis, and a resolving argument or synthesis that is not a compromise between the former but the production of a new argument, ending with a conclusion that does not sum up the points but opens onto a new problem.

The antithesis to this alienation is freedom.

The concept of free trade was an antithesis to the will and economic direction of the sovereigns of the ancient Greek states.

This disfigured ( the antithesis of beautiful ) and corrupt soul is imbalanced and disordered, and in itself undesirable regardless of other advantages of acting unjustly.

In Dungeons & Dragons and similar systems, clerics can attempt to " turn " undead by invoking their patron deities or channeling " positive energy " ( other-dimensional life energy, which animates and heals living creatures, and is the antithesis of negative energy, which animates and heals undead creatures.

She thus rejects Aphrodite's values and becomes, to some extent, her chaste, domestic complementary, or antithesis.

" In liberation theology he declared, the " people is the antithesis of the hierarchy, the antithesis of all institutions, which are seen as oppressive powers.

The antithesis of this is to be against a wall which severely limits the player's movement and allows the opponent an open court.

Dario Sabbatucci has stressed the feature of bearing instability and the antithesis to cosmic order of this god, who threatens the kingly power of Jupiter as Stator and Centumpeda and whose presence occurs side by side with Janus's on January 1.

The later part, taking place on the planet of the " centaurs "— intelligent, horselike carnivores who dominate all other fauna on the planet including deformed human-like creatures — is evidently intended as Heinlein's commentary on and antithesis to the fourth part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

For Mayr, the healthful antithesis of essentialism in biology is " population thinking ".

* Thesis, antithesis, synthesis

He portrays magic as an element of pre-modern societies and in many respects an antithesis of religion.

Another dialectical resolution of disagreement is by denying a presupposition of the contending thesis and antithesis ; thereby, proceeding to sublation ( transcendence ) to synthesis, a third thesis.

According to Plato, the rational detection of error amounts to finding the proof of the antithesis.

Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a threefold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.

On the other hand, Hegel did use a three-valued logical model that is very similar to the antithesis model, but Hegel's most usual terms were: Abstract-Negative-Concrete.

Critics argue that the selection of any antithesis, other than the logical negation of the thesis, is subjective.