ABSTRACT
Today, the concept of dialectics, which is central to political debate, has become highly ideologized. The relations between Stalinism and dialectics have always been paradoxical. In Christian theology, the dual nature of Christ: both divine, and thus consistent, and human- that is, precarious- posits the same underlying idea. Among all the great monotheistic religions, Christianity stands alone on an underlying dialectical axiology. Ostwald’s axiology was published in 1913. Ostwald’s axiology posits the autonomous and axiogenous quality of historical time. The dialectical axiology is connected with certain aspects of Christian theology, as well as with the Freudian theories of drives. For Gestaltist axiology, “dynamic form and requiredness of value with exactly the same properties are one and the same thing.” In the light of Dupreel’s axiology, pluralist democracy appears in fact to be the axiogenous political regime par excellence.
