The Source Tracing of the Thinking Methods in Dialectics

As an important study field in philosophy, dialectics has become the current common concern. The special termdialecticsoriginates from Greek, meaning a kind of skill and activity of the artistic language use, that is, a kind of language expression. After being developed by philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus and Aristotle, the connotation of dialectics changed correspondingly, showing human changed from representationism to abstract thinking and finally constructed the conscious thinking of later philosophers. Dialectics was finaly pushed towards its climax by Kant, Hegal, Marx and Lenin. Thus, dialectics originally is dialectics of concepts, and is bound toaffirm, criticizeandrevolt. In essence, dialectics is originated from the unconditional presupposition of consciously theoretical thinking, hence the essence of human thinking, which is also originated from the conclusion and summary of recognition in human history.