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Basics of Dialectic method

Introduction

The cultural discussion preserves itself, its own efficiency, and its cleanliness.

Cultural art of discussion well known from Ancient Greece as the Dialectic method (Greece known for also creating Democracy where Dialectic method was employed). Socrates loved Dialectic method and criticized sophists for being detrimental to society. Much later, Scholastic school (spanned through Middle ages) was based on the Dialectic approach. Much later, Dialectics was defended by Arthur Schopenhauer in his most well-known work "The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument" (1829-1860), where philosopher compared dialog strategies and proved that from all discussion methods available for him only Dialectic method is moral and arrives at the truth. So the Dialectic method was restated as valid and respected from 500 BCE to the 1900 CE, which is ~2400 years of testing and showing that it works at any civilization age so far.

Main principles

• Process:
  • The main agenda of mutual talk is always to arrive at the truth. The other participants allow to get more contexts and form a mutual understanding of the truth on the topic.
  • The discussion consists of the one main topic.
  • People put arguments (definitions) and gather and prove/disprove (modify) them.
  • Process is the evolution of reason, logic, and deeper understanding of the topic.
• Self-discipline:
  • Use of only morally right argumentation.
  • Respect argumentation that points-out logical fallacies as growth and learning opportunity.
• Message self-review:
  • Important: All ad hominem should be removed from the argumentation (explanation). Ad hominem never arrives at constructive outcome, stops the reasonable conversation and since the argumentation should regard process and use passive voice anyway - there is no pace for any ad hominem there.
  • All self and references to personas should be removed, change active voice to passive voice.
  • Remove emotional denotations and adjective descriptions.
  • Discussion is about the process.

Result

Use of several of the above principles, especially self-review points - intuitively calms, reserves and directs to proper forms. In practice, one would be astonished how fast intelligent and effective the messaging becomes.