DIALECTIC AS PRAXIS

Dialectic is more than an epistemological principle. More fundamentall y, it is a form of praxis - consciousness, self-transformative activit y - from which the logical principles of dialectic are then abstracted . Arising in dialog, dialectical praxis is directed toward emancipator y goals through its fidelity to negation. This essay concludes with sp eculation as to the conditions of nature and human beings that are com patible with the emergence of dialectic.