DIALECTICS OF CONTEMPORARY

A valid critical examination of history and con-temporariness of philosophical and scientific think-ing makes it clear that dialectics is neither a skill of simple discussion nor a method of dividing and relating concepts, nor the intellectual predominance of contradictions. Dialectics is a general philosophical theory and method, but not an abstract learning about a meth-od and not a set of rules and not a set of formulae which, as such, are supplied by examples taken from scientific practice. This means that dialectics is a method of radically critical thinking, or “a theoreti-cal infrastructure of critical thinking which sets self-realization of the man in history as the ultimate aim for itself. ” (Marković, 1994). What dialectics refers to is the general structure of human historical practice and its essential aspect- critical thinking. And as a general philosophical method, dialectics cannot be a mere cognitive process of description and analysis of the existing, but the method of determining objectives and means of the human action. If this is so, we ask a question: What actions and what kind of actions? The answer is as follows: The one(s) and of that kind which will be re-alized based on the following methodical principles: 1. Reality should be grasped as a complex totality, and not as a mere sum of parts, which can be an-alyzed in isolation. Only such a comprehensive approach reveals possibilities of radical change. 2. Beyond sharp contrasts and dichotomies which conceptual research stems from, mediating ex-amples and cases should be discovered