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History CH -1 Historiography Development in the West — Social Studies STD 10 — Question

Maharashtra BoardEnglish MediumSTD 10Social StudiesHistory CH -1 Historiography Development in the West2 Marks
Question
Explain the following concepts.
Dialectics
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Answer

  • In order to understand the true nature of an event, one needs to know its opposite for e.g. True — False, Good — Bad, etc.
  • A German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel had put forward this method of analysis of history.
  • A theory called ‘Thesis’ is proposed at the beginning. It is followed by another theory called Antithesis’ which is, contrary to ‘Thesis’.
  • After a thorough logical discussion of both new thesis is proposed having gist of both (Thesis and Antithesis).
  • This process of orriving at a new thesis is called Synthesis.
  • This method of analysis of history which is based on opposites is known as ‘Dialectics’.

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