What is dialectical thinking? Give an example (not the ones in the text) of the use of dialectical thinking in daily life. Explain how dialectical thinking contributes to an evolving view of oneself or of the world
What will be an ideal response?
Dialectical thinking involves integrating an idea with its antithesis into a new idea.
Examples will vary, but they should demonstrate an understanding of integrating an
idea with its opposite. Dialectical thinking contributes to an evolving view of oneself
or of the world because no answer is ever final. Ideas are constantly being
synthesized with their opposites.
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