Dialectical Method of G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx : A Comparative Analysis

Abstract

This By revisiting the classical theories of G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx, this paper argues
that their dialectics make a clear sense of knowing the external world and reality by solving
some existing conflicts. We see in the ideas of Kant who separated logic from dialectic and
made reality unknowable for us. Hegel’s theory ensures the possibility of knowledge by
showing the real world is only the external phenomenal form of ‘the Idea’. But Marx’s
dialectic is more advanced and scientific for the new explanation of its basic principles that
they use for social revolution, knowledge, and truth. Hegel’s attempt to incorporate logic in
dialectic is the rational kernel of Hegel’s method that is borrowed by Marx. In Hegel’s
dialectic reality is characterized by inherent tendencies to develop the absolute idea.
Dialectic is the Centre of reality and the world that can be understood only dialectically, this
sort of idea we find in both Hegel and Marx’s writings. Hegel’s idea of sublation in
dialectic is also very important for connecting our knowledge to the metaphysical world.