‘PsychoHistorical
Dialectics’ -- Part 02: ‘Seldonisms’ Series.
Dear Reader,
It
is my pleasure,
and my honor, as an officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.]
Office of Public Liaison, and
as a voting member of F.E.D.,
to share, with
you, from
time to time, as
they
are approved
for public release by
the F.E.D.
General Council, key
excerpts
from the internal writings, and from the internal sayings, of our co-founder,
Karl Seldon.
This second release in
this new such
series is posted below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of
the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the
direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].
In this 2nd installment, Seldon defines his pioneering concept of the fourth ‘ideo-ontological’ category in the Dyadic Seldon Function dialectical categorial series or progression that
constitutes our theory of ‘The Dialectic of the Dialectic
Itself’ -- the second ‘contra-category’ in that Dialectic of Dialectic; the category that he christened ‘PsychoHistorical
Dialectics’.
Seldon --
“Our ‘Psychohistorical Dialectics’ is about [dialectical]
theories of error regarding other [dialectical] theories. The goal of our
‘psychohistorical-dialectical method’ is to correct the errors of the
‘‘‘historical-dialectical’’’ theories upon which it operates, manifesting as
the construction of a new, more adequate ‘‘‘historical-dialectical theory’’’, one
that includes an explanation of the errors of its predecessor theory in terms
of ‘psychohistorical-material conditions’ prevailing during the epoch(s) in
which those theories/ideologies arose, e.g., in terms of the “social forces of
production”, the “social relations of production”, and the state of the ‘human
phenome/human genome complex unity’ then prevailing.”
“Although
our ‘psychohistorical dialectical’ theories of error do
not shrink from exploring critiques per standards which are external to those
of the theory-objects being reviewed and celebrated/criticized, they are, in
the main, about immanent critique.”
“ ‘Psychohistorical
Dialectics’ involves the ‘intermutual’ confrontation between two or more
distinct, opposing ‘‘‘Historical Dialectics’’’ theories, in our sense thereof, or between two or more theories that
can be interpreted as implicitly ‘‘‘historical-dialectical’’’, even if
they are not explicitly so, and/or even if they were not ‘intendedly’ so
per their theorizers.”
“These
two or more ‘historical-dialectical’ theories may have originated in two
different, past historical epochs.”
“They
may have originated each in the same past historical epoch.”
“They
may have originated, one [or more] in a past historical epoch,
the other(s) in the present historical epoch.”
“Or,
they may have both originated in the present historical epoch. Indeed, one of those theories may be the
theory [initially] held by the ‘celebrator’/critic of both of those present
theories.”
“In
any of these cases, our ‘psychohistorical dialectical method’ involves an
in-depth, detailed, immersive collision between[, or among], these two [or
more] ‘‘‘historical-dialectical’’’ categorial-progression-form theories.”
“If
this method is successful, the result is a ‘‘‘third(+)’’’, new, higher, richer,
better, more predictively accurate ‘‘‘historical-dialectical’’’ theory, one
which achieves a ‘‘‘dialectical synthesis’’’ of the two or more contradictory dialectical
theories or systems whose ‘intermutually’ critical interactions gave rise to
it.”
“In
the latter case cited above, in which both/all theories to be
celebrated/critiqued arise in the present epoch of their
reviewer/celebrant/critic, and in which one of those theories is that was once recently held
by that reviewer/- celebrant/critic, the successful operation of this method
yields an improvement in the theory held by that reviewer/celebrant/critic.”
For more
information regarding these
Seldonian insights, please see --
For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see:
¡ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Participant, F.E.D.
Special Council for Public Liaison,
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison.
