The dialectic is a way of understanding that nothing is forever, everything changes.

Check it out for yourself--stop and think about the dynamic, contradictory and ever-changing aspects of anything that you want--A book?  A day of the week?  A person? 

Now you try it: Pick anything you can, and think of the contradictory aspects of it. Note: Don't limit yourself to one moment--the dialectic is dynamic, and not static.  That means that it's not much good to look at a thing at one moment in time, like a snapshot.  Things change.  People change.  What a thing was a moment ago it isn't any longer. 

(****Hint: If you can think of something that DOESN'T have contradictory aspects or doesn't ever change, it probably doesn't belong to this world!****)

                                              

 

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