His dialectic is the outcome of his contention that the transcendental metaphysics as a natural disposition and as a science is impossible. Immanual Kant used the term dialectics in his Critique of Pure Reason in the sense of criticism or critique. This paper is divided into three parts viz., Kant, Fichte and Schelling. In his work Lecturers on the History of Philosophy and in other works also analysed his predecessors 2 philosophies critically. The term dialectic is so much identified with the name of Hegel that it is not possible to think one without the other. As every one knows, Hegel is known very much for his dialectical thinking. This paper is aimed at analyzing the dialectic of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling in the perspective of Hegel. Among them Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel are important thinkers, who used dialectic in their Philosophy. 1Īpart from Greek thinkers, German thinkers also used dialectic in analysing their thought. Aristotle says that Zeno of Elea is considered to be the inventor of dialectic as a method. Since pre-Socratic thought, in the history of Western Philosophy, it has been used variously by different thinkers. At times it is also understand as the critical analysis of a ‘given’. For many thinkers, it is a technique of questioning by which truth is arrived at. The term dialectic is derived from the Greek terms ‘dia’ and ‘logos’ which mean dialogue or a conversation between two persons.
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