... yet decorated in a different style. Development occurs in a recurring 3-beat rhythm. At each step, a given situation, the thesis evokes an element of opposition, the antithesis. A struggle between the two ends in a compromise, the synthesis, which in turn forms the thesis on the next higher level. This pattern, says Hegal, is clearly evident in human history. A civilization evolves somewhere and rises ... to obtain a diploma in Philosophy. So Marx chose as his dissertation a comparison between the 2 ancient Greek philosophers Democritus, and Epicurus. Both were early materialists. He ded...

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