Dialectical Paradigm Research Articles

Сущность войны: анализ основных концепций

The article delves into a consistent analysis of the opposing paradigms of the essence of war – the metaphysical and dialectical paradigms. The former is represented by two directions – “depoliticization” and “absolute politicization of war”. Specific conceptions of the essence of this phenomenon realized within its framework are described – economic, naturalistic, militaristic and axiological. It reveals their scientific inconsistency and reactionary political content – attempts to justify openly unjust, invasive, illegal wars with references to natural, native and eternal “laws” of social existence. The second direction reflects the views of those who reduce the essence of politics itself to armed violence, to a strategy in international relations “from a position of strength”, which they try to “justify” even clearly aggressive wars. The dialectical paradigm of war is based on the analysis of the essence of war as a unity of politics and armed violence, with the leading role of the former and the latter being driven by the latter, which, in turn, actively influences the former. The study implements the historical method of analysis in empirical and conceptual aspects. Structural-functional and world-system analysis methodology made it possible to incorporate the essential problems of modern international politics and military strategy into the content of the article, including Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine. Scientific novelty is contained in the unique methodology presented in the paradigms of the essence of war and the classification of their specific concepts. There are also elements of critical analysis of some modern concepts of our scientists on the analyzed problem.

Immersion in the Concrete (On Dialectics and Its Interpretation by A. A. Zinoviev)

In correlation with the position of A. A. Zinoviev, the peculiarities of dialectics are discussed. The focus is on the philosophical nature of dialectics, its inherent interrelation of the abstract and the concrete, as well as the specificity of dialectical contradiction. The author’s reasoning is built around several pivotal statements. Science can do without dialectics; but philosophy cannot do without dialectics. Dialectical thought does not ascend from the abstract to the concrete, but immerses in the concrete. Dialectical contradiction arises between meanings that are close to the opposite ones, but are not strictly opposite. It is reasonable to distinguish between dialectics of process and dialectics of state and to insist on the irreducibility to the first dialectical paradigm as such. Dialectics is not only a theory and methodology, but, above all, a style.

A Nostalgic Return to the Future: The Utopian Dialectic in Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds

Abstract As one of the most representative writers of contemporary Chinese science fiction, Hao Jingfang is well known for her world-building that blends the characteristics of both utopia and dystopia, especially in Vagabonds. In line with the classic utopian dialectic in Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, Hao Jingfang has also set up two opposing worlds: the libertarian Earth that welcomes market competition and individualistic pursuit for capital and the egalitarian Martian Republic built upon scarcity and under the supervision of a central archive system that provides social welfare and protection. However, neither of the two societies is “perfect” enough to be called a true utopia. People in both societies see the other world as the negation of their own, though this, again, simply traps them in an unending cycle of “negating to negation.” Through such a process of negative hermeneutics, Vagabonds provides a dialectical paradigm with which to interrogate China’s postsocialist transition since the 1990s while invoking a utopian hope for a post-postsocialist alternative for China.

Money laundering in a CBDC world: a game of cats and mice

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to describe the present taxonomy of money, summarize potential central bank digital currency (CBDC) regimes that central banks worldwide could adopt and explore the implications of the introduction of each of these CDBC regimes for money laundering through the lens of the regulatory dialectic theory.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology used in the analysis of significant recent events regarding the progress of central banks in establishing a CBDC and the implications for money laundering under a CBDC regime. This paper also reviews the literature regarding the Regulatory Dialectic to highlight potential innovative responses of money launderers to circumvent the controls generated through the implementation of a CBDC.FindingsThis study examines the impact of Kane’s regulatory dialectic paradigm on the feasibility of money laundering under a CBDC regime and identifies potential avenues that would be available for those seeking to launder money, based on the form a CBDC would take.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is unable as of yet to empirically evaluate anti-money laundering (AML) tactics under a CBDC regime as it has not yet been fully implemented.Practical implicationsMany central banks worldwide are evaluating the structure of and introduction of a CBDC. There are a number of forms that a CBDC could take, each of which has implications for individual privacy and for entities involved in AML efforts within financial institutions and the regulatory community. The paper has implications for AML experts who are considering how AML procedures would change under a CBDC regime.Social implicationsThe regulatory dialectic predicts that regulatory response reactive, rather than proactive when it comes to socially undesirable phenomena. As central banks and governments seek to divert economic activity away from the laundering of the proceeds of illicit activity, there are tradeoffs in terms of a loss of privacy. The regulatory dialectic predicts a corresponding innovative response of those who wish to undermine the controls generated through the establishment of a CBDC.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to explore the impact of a potential CBDC on money laundering and the potential innovative circumventions within the paradigm of the Regulatory Dialectic.

Money laundering with cryptocurrency: open doors and the regulatory dialectic

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to describe the opportunities and limitations of cryptocurrencies as a tool for money laundering through six currently available “open doors” (exchange mechanisms). The authors link the regulatory dialectic paradigm to know your customer and anti-money laundering evasion techniques, highlight six tactics to launder funds with virtual assets and investigate potential law enforcement and regulatory alternates used to reduce the incidence of money laundering with digital coins.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology used is the analysis of significant recent events and the availability of “fintech” crime-fighting tools and a literature review focusing on the application of the regulatory dialectic to innovations in existing crypto-asset markets that make them compelling to money launderers.FindingsThe authors examine the illicit use of cryptocurrency through Kane’s regulatory dialectic paradigm, identify a number of avenues for crypto to fiat exchange that are still available for those seeking to launder money using digital coins, review recently “closed doors” and make recommendations regarding the regulation of crypto-related markets that may assist in making them less desirable for potential criminals.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is constrained by the state of the market for crypto to fiat exchange as of time of writing; the technology and products to launder money using these open doors is continually changing (as predicted by the regulatory dialectic).Social implicationsThe regulatory dialectic predicts that regulatory response is reactive and often increasingly burdensome or oppressive. There is continuous innovation in the cryptocurrency market, which seeks to preserve privacy and anonymity with which regulators seek to keep up. From a social perspective, the response of bank regulators worldwide to existing open doors for crypto to fiat exchange used for money laundering may prove costly to individuals engaging in legitimate transactions, as well as financial criminals and may also erode the ability of individuals to maintain privacy regarding their financial information.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, there are yet no broad overview regarding the feasibility of money laundering across crypto-related assets within the paradigm of the regulatory dialectic.

Metodología para la dirección del proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje del Marxismo Leninismo en universidades cubana.

El análisis del término metodología en el campo de diferentes disciplinas, posee diversos sentidos o acepciones; en el presente resultado se asume como objetivo y resultado de la investigación científica. Los autores proponen una metodología para la dirección del proceso enseñanza –aprendizaje del Marxismo leninismo en las universidades cubana, que parte de la formación inicial del profesional. Fue utilizada desde el enfoque sistémico, contenido en el paradigma dialéctico materialista y enriquecido con los aportes de la ciencia contemporánea. Además del hermenéutico en reflexiones obtenidas durante su concepción.

Paradigma Materialisme Dialektis di Era Milenial

<p><em>Li</em><em>fe in this age provides various kinds of convenience in achieving the expected goals. There are various kinds of opportunities, possibilities and hopes that have so far not been possible now show their existence. The rapid pace of development of technology and information is one of the characteristics of the millennial era. In millennial era, we will easily find people who are multitasking. Sociable in association and able to put the difference in proportion. The existence of material in the form of money really plays a vital role in life. The material and its exchange become fine dining day-to-day, and every activity that is pursued leads to the material to be achieved</em></p><p><em>M</em><em>ate</em><em>rialism is defined as a philosophical school that considers that it exists or real is just matter. Basically everything consists of matter and all phenomena is the result of material interaction. It is undeniable that understanding materialism has major contribution to the development of science.</em></p><em>Technological advances and the rapid flow of information that developed in the millennial era is a logical consequence of the dialectical materialism paradigm. Dialectical materialism is a view that relies on matter (objects) and uses methods dialectical. Material is stated to have connected with one another, mutual influence and interdependent with each other. Everything is inside the process of change, movement and continuous development.</em>

T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination by Jewel Spears Brooker

Reviewed by: T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination by Jewel Spears Brooker John Tamilio III (bio) T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination Jewel Spears Brooker Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. 240 pp. $49.95 hardcover. In the introduction to T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination, Jewel Spears Brooker notes that, “We are in the dawn of a renaissance in Eliot studies because the long-restricted archival material is now being published in critical editions” (3). Among this material is the two-volume annotated editions of Eliot’s published and unpublished poems by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue, the multivolume letters edited by John Haffenden, and The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, which consists of eight critical editions edited by numerous Eliot scholars with Ronald Schuchard as the general editor (Brooker is coeditor of volumes one and eight). Just recently, the much anticipated letters between Eliot and Emily Hale have been made available through the Princeton University Library. Brooker draws upon this scholarship, especially the prose volumes, in her rigorous analysis of the dialectic she perceives in a sampling of Eliot’s major poems and criticism. She begins with Eliot’s first seminal piece, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and works her way through to his masterpiece Four Quartets, spending scrutinous time probing other anthologized pieces, such as The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, and Ash Wednesday. Some of Eliot’s student poems, lectures, and his dissertation on F. H. Bradley are also examined. Brooker’s analysis is as meticulous as it is innovative, yielding fresh insight into a poet who many feel is indecipherable unless, of course, one finds meaning in the sentiments Eliot evokes in the reader. One cannot read this study without thinking about Hegel, whom Brooker references just once (47). Granted, Hegel focused on the telos of history: how history is moving toward a unified purpose that humanity would understand from an eschatological position. This is part of what Eliot means in his Four Quartets, which begin: “Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past” (“Burnt Norton” I, ll. 1–3). This construct is part of the dialectic that Brooker explores in this study and is one of her critical refrains. Using a similar methodology, Brooker develops her cogent claim that Eliot tends to think in triads and that “[t]he dialectical imagination is by definition triadic, a structure that in itself nudges the mind to move beyond contradictions” (120). It moves beyond contradictions in two ways: by arriving at a new thesis, à la the Hegelian paradigm, or by remaining comfortable in the imbalance. But the phrase arriving at is where Brooker would differ in her analysis: throughout the book she uses the term transcends. Such a [End Page 223] distinction is central to her analysis of Eliot. Throughout his work and religious maturation, Eliot thought within a dialectic paradigm. Brooker notes that “the psycho-physical dualism that had troubled Eliot from the beginning of his life as a poet” remained with him (116). The serious believer should not find this strange. Christian Theology lives and grows within a dialectic imagination: the tension of living in the now and the not-yet; of worshipping a God who is present in absence and absent in presence; of serving a Savior who, through the act of kenosis, redeems humanity. Eliot lived within this tension and found that surmounting physical, psychological, emotional, temporal, and of course spiritual quandaries was attained through transcendence. Towards the end of the third section of “East Coker,” Eliot compares opposite states of being and offers a solution: “In order to arrive there, / To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy” (III, ll. 35–37ff). This pattern pervaded Eliot’s thinking. Brooker shows how Eliot addressed philosophical, spiritual, emotional, and spatiotemporal predicaments in his verse with the goal being to find a third way: to transcend the dilemma in which he was enmeshed or to live, however uncomfortably, in the imbalance. In his early verse, Eliot was drawn to existential questions and the “gap between intellect and...

JCPOA; A Dialectical Paradigm of Treaty and Other International Instruments

Generally, agreements made between subjects of international law can adopt diverse contents. Due to their status in international law system, these treaties can play different roles resulting in different repercussions. In this sense, lack of a benchmark to be used as distinguishing between treaties and other international instruments might cause problems in the system of international law of treaties because its paradigm has always been the locus of dialectic issues hold between legal scholars. JCPOA is not devoid of this dialectic since it is considered as a new pattern for solving problems in international relations. Hence, it is very important to determine the position of JCPOA in the system of international law, particularly in terms of its role within the international society, nature of subject matter, and parties. Therefore, the present study is aimed at offering an investigation of JCPOA and its comprising columns to come to an answer to the question of whether JCPOA is an international treaty or another instrument. Investigating the content of JCPOA and its comprising columns and also offering an interpretation on definition of ‘treaty’ from the viewpoint of1969 Convention, it is concluded that not only do not the content of JCPOA and the intentions of its writers imply a treaty, but also rules of international law of treaties and Vienna Convention confirm this too.

OS0304 工学における創造性とそこに現れる3つの弁証法的なパラダイムシフト : 第2報工学教育への適用

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The Iron Fruit: The Dialectic Paradigm of Context in Marxism

The Iron Fruit: The Dialectic Paradigm of Context in Marxism

La estructura de la administración crítica. Una interpretación dialéctica: implicaciones para la educación superior

En esta presentacion elaborare y explicare conceptos medulares que clarificanlas proposiciones y los planteamientos quehago en el libro La estructura de la administracion critica: una interpretacion dialectica. De igual modo, analizare como dichos conceptos ayudan a entender el Paradigma dialectico de administracion criticaque propongo en dicho libro. Analizare,ademas, las implicaciones de dicho paradigma para la administracion de la educacion superior

Action Research and Collaboration: a new perspective in social research and language education

The disconnection between what counts as social research (SR) and what serves society�s needs and interests results in a way of theorizing which, while useful, does not integrate theory and practice; a form of social theory that is not embodied in real lives and does not help non-academic people understand their contexts and practices. This disconnection in SR demands a new epistemology, a new way of knowing and doing research that can meet the everyday needs of people living real-life situations. A dialectical paradigm, researching and knowing from experience through intellectual study, can enable people to 91 rethink social theory as a practical discipline oriented towards social renewal. Within this perspective, action research (AR) can align social research and teaching to social needs because it creates a space for collaborative reflection about the mutual contrast and integration of many kinds of knowledge systems and the shared design of both the goals and the actions aimed at achieving them. Social researchers and language educators could use AR and collaboration to develop legitimate knowledge, promote social change and solve problems, while creating a space for joint reflection and dynamic interaction in language classrooms.

Action Research and Collaboration: A New Perspective in Social Research and Language Education

The disconnection between what counts as social research (SR) and what serves society’s needs and interests results in a way of theorizing which, while useful, does not integrate theory and practice. This disconnection in SR demands a new epistemology, a new way of knowing and doing research that can meet the everyday needs of people living real-life situations. A dialectical paradigm, researching and knowing from experience through intellectual study, can enable people to rethink social theory as a practical discipline oriented towards social renewal. Within this perspective, action research (AR) can align social research and teaching to social needs because it creates a space for collaborative reflection about the mutual contrast and integration of many kinds of knowledge systems and the shared design of both the goals and the actions aimed at achieving them.

Sakuma Shozan's Hegelian vision for Japan

By the mid‐19th century, an increasing number of Japan's political leaders and scholars realized that Japan had to adapt and incorporate some elements of Western‐style industrialization into their own political and economic order as the necessary means to remain independent of Western imperialism. The Opium War in China, and later the Euro‐American bombardments of the domain capitals in Choshu and Satsuma demonstrated that trying to defend the realm with only an increased emphasis on coastal defense would ultimately fail to keep out the barbarians from the West. Sakuma Shozan, a samurai scholar from Matsushiro, proposed a dichotomous philosophy of ‘Eastern ethics, Western science’ as the means to strengthen Japan both internally and externally, and allow Japan to maintain its independence. In this paper, I argue that Sakuma's dichotomous approach can be interpreted within a Hegelian dialectical paradigm. After the traditional order of Japan (Eastern ethics as Idea/Thesis) came into contact with the industrializing order of the West (Western science as Nature/Anti‐Thesis), Sakuma believed a new order would be created in Japan (Synthesis) that combined an increased knowledge on the Eastern ethics of Neo‐Confucianism with the ‘new’ scientific knowledge of the West.

The dialectics of human resource management in Cuba

Dialectical theory is applied to the examination of how institutional and organizational level changes are leading to a new human resource management (HRM) paradigm in Cuba. The paper starts with a general overview of economy and enterprise in Cuba, which serves to expose the nature of the pressures and contradictions facing managers and organizations in this country. Based on a focus group study, an analysis of the process of change in the HRM paradigm as perceived by a sample of Cuban managers is presented. The emerging dialectical paradigm is to a great extent influenced by the institutional context, namely by the control of the state. The state's role in the protection of the communist principles, combined with the need to open the economy to the logic of the market, is constituting a singular case in the world of management in general and of HRM in particular: that of a communist country with an increasingly market-based economy, where the socialist cadre is simultaneously becoming a market-oriented HR manager.

Evolution of evolvability.

Genomic sequence data provide evidence for a common origin of life and for its evolution by genetic variation via mutation and recombination. This paper discusses the fundamental dialectic paradigm of evolution--stability versus variability--at the crossroads of molecular genetics, population genetics, ecology, and the emerging science of experimental evolution. Experimental evolution of molecules, viruses, and bacteria can be used not only to test some basic evolutionary hypotheses but also to create new organisms for applications in biotechnology, agriculture, and medicine.

A measure of paradigm beliefs about the social world.

This study examined the reliability and construct validity of, along with age differences in, a measure of paradigm beliefs about the social world, beliefs that have been proposed to develop across the adolescent and adult life span. The scale is a 27-item, forced-choice preference measure of absolute, relativistic, and dialectical paradigm beliefs. In a series of investigations with 445 subjects, ranging in age from 16 to 83 years, it was shown to have good internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and both convergent and discriminant validities. It predicted performance on an in-depth interview about paradigm beliefs and was related to two other measures of paradigm beliefs. It was not related to selected personality variables (i.e., social dogmatism, intolerance of ambiguity and social desirability); nor was it related to a measure of verbal intelligence. The scale also showed predicted developmental trends, supporting its utility for developmental research.

Gender, role conflict, and the development of relativistic and dialectical thinking

Females have been found to experience greater role conflict. The present study explored whether this conflict fosters earlier social cognitive development. A battery of questionnaires, including a vocabulary test, a role conflict questionnaire, a role articulation questionnaire, and a questionnaire of social cognitive (i.e., absolute, relativistic, and dialectical) paradigm beliefs, was administered to a sample of 121 high-school freshmen, college freshmen, and college seniors. As predicted, females reported more role conflict, showed greater role articulation, and exhibited more advanced (i.e., relativistic and/or dialectical) social cognitive development. The role conflict questionnaire did not correlate with social cognition or mediate its relationship to gender, but future role articulation of family roles and the synthesis of family and work roles did. However, the causal relations were not unidirectional, and alternative hypotheses are discussed.

The Teaching of Cataloging

This paper examines library literature concerning the conflict in teaching cataloging, between education for librarianship and training for specific tasks performed in the library. The literature reflects fundamental trends in library education; balance between theory and practice, evolution from apprenticeship to graduate school and the role of cataloging in curricula. It has concerned six issues; practitioners as educators, differentiation of professional duties, centralization and cooperation, development of cataloging codes, technological change and anticipated professional functions. A more profound corollary issue is also addressed. Training prepares for the current environment; education prepares for change. The literature presents a dichotomous view, seeking resolution by balancing mutually exclusive elements. An historical perspective suggests a dialectical paradigm, a process of continuous interaction between opposing forces which produce a synthesis.