Hegel's undiscovered thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectics : what only Marx and Tillich understood / Leonard F. Wheat.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-434) and index.

1. Dialectics Denied -- The Nature of the Problem -- The Literature: Denial of Dialectics -- The Literature: False Examples of Dialectics -- Tillich: Genuine Examples of Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Dialectics -- 2. Dialectics Affirmed -- Antithetical Concepts -- Dialectical Terminology -- Phenomenology's Preface -- Phenomenology's Introduction -- Phenomenology's Part A: Consciousness -- 3. Spirit, Unconsciousness, the Macrodialectic, and Freedom -- Spirit: A Nonsupernatural Physical-Mental "Organism" -- Separation and Return -- The Trinity as "Revealed Religion" -- Hegel's Macrodialectic: The Unconscious Stage (Thesis) -- Hegel's Macrodialectic: The Full Dialectic -- Freedom and Bondage -- 4. The Intermediate Dialectics and Microdialectics -- The Intermediate Dialectics -- The Microdialectics -- The Message of Our Education in Dialectics -- 5. The Dialectics of History: Hegel vs. Marx -- Hegel's History Dialectics -- Level One Hegel's Two Overall-Period Dialectics -- Level Two Hegel's Two Subperiod Dialectics -- Level Three Hegel's Six Sub-Subperiod Dialectics -- Picking and Choosing -- Marx's History Dialectics -- Marx's Dialectical Framework -- Level One Marx's Overall-Period Dialectics -- Level Two Marx's Subperiod Dialectics -- Metaphysics -- 6.False and Fuzzy Interpretations of Spirit -- Panentheistic Interpretations -- Pantheistic Interpretations -- Nonsupernatural Quasi-Pantheistic Interpretations -- Nonsupernatural Societal Interpretations -- Five Noninterpretations -- 7. Side Issues and Conclusions -- Forster's Hypothesis of Late Expansion of the Text -- Solomon's Beautiful Soul Hypothesis -- Appraising Hegel's Thought.