Dialectics and metaphysics - an overview - differences

1. AN OVERVIEW - DIFFERENCES

2. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
DIALECTICS AND METAPHYSICS
 In dialectics, nature is an integral whole in which all objects and phenomena are
interlinked, interdependent, and interconditioned.
 In metaphysics, nature is viewed as a random agglomeration of objects and phenomena
isolated from one another.
 In dialectics, nature is always in a state of continual motion and change, of renovation
and development.
 In metaphysics, nature is presented as being always in a state of rest and immobility, of
stagnation and immutability.
 In dialectics, the process of development is the unity of continuity and discontinuity,
transition from insignificant and latent quantitative changes to open, fundamental, and
qualitative changes.
 In metaphysics, motion and development are no more than growth in which
quantitative changes do not result in qualitative ones. The metaphysician exaggerates the
stability of the objects and phenomena of the world, their repetitiveness, relative
independence, etc.
 In dialectics, all objects and phenomena of the nature without exception are inherently
contradictory, all of them have negative and positive aspects, their past and future,
something that is withering away and is born and develops a new.
 In metaphysics, contradictions are “unnatural", that is, they are regarded as “deviations”
from the normal state of objects and phenomena