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Any resources on rejecting dialectic?

René Girard, in "I See Satan Fall Like Lightning," effectively (in my opinion) mapped out how dialectical narratives underpin the process of scapegoating victims in a society for sacrifice / purging via revolutionary violence. There is a deep connection between dialectics and their basis in accusatory networks.

If you mean "against dialectic" (havent read TFA yet), a famous case was made by Karl Popper:

https://www.vordenker.de/ggphilosophy/popper_what-is-dialect...

Vimalakirti sutra

EDIT: for something more recent: Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Anything a bit more recent?

Like, Marx-recent?

Marx is the opposite of the kind of reference you want if you want to reject dialectical thinking. That was Marx's whole deal.

Ah.

What I wanted to say was:

I know a bunch of people who argument from Marx perspective of dialectical thinking.

But the comment I replied to gave me the impression, dialectical thinking was fundamentally flawed.

So, I was interested where this flaw lies and how it might proof Marx wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31479769

Another work that is more formal is Maximus’s Ambigua, written largely in response to Origen’s Neoplatonism. Origen was rather fixated on the idea of either precarnate good vs. fallen flesh (those are your two options, another version of Gnosticism basically).

Maximus offers the solution of transcending simple dialectics because free will allows one to choose from more than one good.

In general, discomfort with ambiguity and free will reveals a lot about a person, society, organization, etc.

Michel Foucault

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