Both dialectics and synergetics are concepts that attempt to describe the fundamental laws that govern the development of various systems and consider development to be a natural property of nature. Both dialectics and synergetics claim to be universal in their constructions. However, the sources and status of dialectics and synergetics are different.�
Dialectics is, first of all, a philosophical concept that moves “from the abstract to the concrete”, which corresponds to the general logic of the Hegelian method. Hegel developed dialectics purely theoretically, and later in various works sought to show the applicability of the dialectical method to various fields (nature, history, etc., etc.). The main source of development in dialectics is considered to be a conflict, but at the same time mutually complementary, tense interaction of opposites, which are removed in a synthesis that becomes a source of new conflict and further development.
Synergetics as a theory of self-organization of systems is rather a scientific interdisciplinary field that emerged in the depths of physics (Haken) and chemistry (Prigogine), which moves from individual observations to more and more generalizing conclusions, in the long run claiming the universal character of the laws developed by it. In their specific aspects, the patterns identified by synergetics differ from those identified by dialectics: the idea of a fundamentally unpredictable nature of development on the one hand (which is also fixed in the concept of “bifurcation point”) and the presence of certain points of attraction, “attractors”, which the development of the system tends to achieve, comes to the fore.
Synergetics can serve as a scientific justification for some aspects of dialectical philosophy, and dialectics, in turn, can serve as the philosophical foundation of synergetics.
Both dialectics and synergetics are concepts that attempt to describe the fundamental laws that govern the development of various systems and consider development to be a natural property of nature. Both dialectics and synergetics claim to be universal in their constructions. However, the sources and status of dialectics and synergetics are different.�
Dialectics is, first of all, a philosophical concept that moves “from the abstract to the concrete”, which corresponds to the general logic of the Hegelian method. Hegel developed dialectics purely theoretically, and later in various works sought to show the applicability of the dialectical method to various fields (nature, history, etc., etc.). The main source of development in dialectics is considered to be a conflict, but at the same time mutually complementary, tense interaction of opposites, which are removed in a synthesis that becomes a source of new conflict and further development.
Synergetics as a theory of self-organization of systems is rather a scientific interdisciplinary field that emerged in the depths of physics (Haken) and chemistry (Prigogine), which moves from individual observations to more and more generalizing conclusions, in the long run claiming the universal character of the laws developed by it. In their specific aspects, the patterns identified by synergetics differ from those identified by dialectics: the idea of a fundamentally unpredictable nature of development on the one hand (which is also fixed in the concept of “bifurcation point”) and the presence of certain points of attraction, “attractors”, which the development of the system tends to achieve, comes to the fore.
Synergetics can serve as a scientific justification for some aspects of dialectical philosophy, and dialectics, in turn, can serve as the philosophical foundation of synergetics.