Greek dialectics as a rigorous method. A research into the earliest known philosophical methodology

Abstract

Dialectics is a philosophical method, it has methodology rigor for academic research. It is divided into two main variants: Greek and German. In turn, there are particularities between each variant, the Greek is subdivided into Platonic and Aristotelian, and the German into Hegelian and Marxist. The present article focuses on the first variant. It explores the ontological and epistemological presuppositions, through a specific review of the Platonic Dialogues Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist and Statesman (also called Politicus); it also deals with Aristotle’s Topics. The reading of these works, with the dialectical method as the object of study, is done from the approach of a Metaphysics of Relation, a notion that is assumed from the connotative and explicative view as a strategy to identify a common thread of the Greek variant of dialectics.