Abstract

Hegel’s dialectic can be expressed as a transcendental holism. It is a transcendental enterprise because it seeks to make manifest the conditions of the possibility of whatever is to be understood. Thus a phenomenological dialectic brings to light the conditions of the possibility of experience, the various modes in which the world appears to us; a logical dialectic shows forth the conditions of the possibility of the thoughts with which we think the world; and an ontological dialectic expresses the conditions of the possibility of the things themselves which make up the world we think and experience.