Hegel’s Dialectical Realization
The realization is embedded within history itself. Within the process of evolving through time is the information needed to understand reality. History is an evolutionary process that is neither circular nor linear but curvilinear, resembling not a line or circle but a coil or a spiral. History’s ebb and flow cannot be precisely or conveniently explained because it involves and reflects the complex interactions of life. Despite the difficulty of obtaining scientific certainties in history, human behavior can be understood through the study of history. Usually those who espouse a dialectical view of life are idealistic because they tend to believe that life is a process of progression of evolution.
Plato forwards a form of spiritual idealism that the material reality had less reality than the place where the ideas are actually formed and created. The material reality is based on the realm of appearances—usually exclusively—denying the importance of the reality of forms that underlies the creation of all things. Karl Marx taking from Hegel says that materialism has been a tool alter human consciousness throughout human history.
Dialectic of Materialism
1) Thesis is usually controlled by the materialists—the people of the status quo—who do what ever the leaders say because they know it is in their best interests.
2) Antithesis is a reification from the realm of forms—going in the polar opposite of direction—a reverse of the prevailing paradigm of thesis proponents—but equally excessive in relation to the unreality of its interpretation of reality of the real place of forms and how justice should be implemented in the physical reality.
3) Snythesis is incorporation of the revolutionary ideas of the antithesis into the systems of the world to come closer to the state of the ideal or maybe just a way of the thesis to regenerate itself by incorporating some of the ideas of the antithesis to the reality it imposes on the people.
Thought there have been some disruptions throughout history that rule of the rich and the powerful never been put into serious peril on a global scale. People lack the will to challenge the illlusions that dominate Plato’s cave. When there are enough people who have the will to challenge the delusional thinking that sustains the status quo, then we will have a possibility as human beings of escaping from the chokehold that the power of illusion has on human reality. Those who emerge from the cave and see the light of the realm of forms feel compelled to live their lives in a quest to raise consciousness and awakenness: to enlighten the people who are still trapped in the realm of appearances. The trick is how to do this with humility.