ABSTRACT
S. N. Eisenstadt thus called for a third phase, which could be unequivocally called the “dialogic phase of progress,” that should be accomplished through the egalitarian readiness of both the old and the new to change simultaneously and to grow together. The empirical elucidation of progress possibilities through dialogic coexistence on the spiritual and material level raises the question of the very possibility and significance of socialization for an internal dialogue on another level. Spiritual progress as an end would obviously depend on what J. P. Sartre termed the dynamic “totalizing” ability to ever extend and widen the pilpulistic dialogue so that the growing knowledge emerging from life will not turn into a synthetic dead “totalite” but be included in its ever-widening circle. The major goal of our brief presentation of the pilpulistic dialogue was only to introduce it as a spiritual system of growth that might have exerted paradigmatic influences on possibilities of material-communal progress.
