[Aquinasfan]

Georg Hegel, an Enlightenment shock trooper of evil, discarded the rules and turned the concept upside-down by equalizing thesis and antithesis, which resulted in moral relativity. 'New truth' is now found in something called 'synthesis.'

Hegelian Dialect is a perfect example of what J. Budziszewski termed the "black magic spells of imposture and unraveling." Hegel's form of dialectics is itself an impostor. It effectively unravels truth and norms and then replaces them with a 'new truth' which is yet another impostor.

Yup. If you hear the word "facilitator," run!

Of course, like most philosophers, Hegel exempted his theory from his theory. By his own theory, Hegel can't claim that his theory is true, just another "thesis" or "antithesis" to be synthesized.

[Taliesan]

Actually, a facilitator is an important role in such settings as corporate strategy meetings and brainstorming with more than a half dozen participants.

It's so stupid to take perfectly good words and concepts and make them into nefarious things. Obviously, if somebody 'facilitates' you into compromising your belief in the Bodily Resurrection of Christ you and he did a bad thing -- but that doesn't make ALL "facilitation" into a bad thing.

The same with the concept "synthesis". Do you folks think Hegel INVENTED the reality of a thesis and its antithesis being forged into a new synthesis? I use this process every day, and I bet you do too. I manage a business; one group within the business thinks the only way to do something is A (because of value A) and the other group says no, B (because of value B) and it is my job to say "here is a method C which preserves both values A and B."

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Facilitation. Consensus.

Real Satanic stuff.