Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 07 Readers familiar with both the history of philosophy and the history of science often notice a striking difference in the way these disciplines are commonly presented. Histories of philosophy frequently appear as continuous conversations extending across centuries. Plato proposes an idea; Aristotle develops or criticizes it;Continue reading “Excursus 107 – Continuity, Rupture, and Conflict in the History of Ideas”
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Excursus 067 – On Conflict and Reciprocity as Forms of Movement
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 14 Throughout the history of dialectical thought, conflict has often been treated as its defining characteristic. From Plato through Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, the vocabulary of dialectic increasingly came to revolve around opposition, negation, contradiction, and struggle. By the nineteenth century, conflict was frequently regarded notContinue reading “Excursus 067 – On Conflict and Reciprocity as Forms of Movement”
Excursus 044 – On the Primacy of Movement in Dialectical Thought
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 16 Throughout much of the history of dialectical thought, contradiction has increasingly come to be regarded as the defining feature of dialectic. From Plato through Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, dialectical development was progressively interpreted in terms of opposition, negation, conflict, or contradiction. By the nineteenth century,Continue reading “Excursus 044 – On the Primacy of Movement in Dialectical Thought”
Hossein Jorjani 