The key to scientific method, and thus to the mastery of both science and history, is the method of the Platonic dialogue. This is also properly termed the dialectical method, as such a method is associated with Thales, Heraclitus and Plato. It is not, however, the “dialectical method” represented in most of the available literary productions of the Moscow Institute of Marxism-Leninism--even though the kernel of Karl Marx’s method was a distillate from the Ionian dialectical method. This Platonic method has two inseparable facets. As a consequence of its findings, the Platonic method
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