Intended Meaning
Dialectic here is not merely an overt conflict between two parties. In the available evidence, it is a movement encompassing binaries and internal and external conflicts, whose domain is made to include the universe and the human being.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The text states: “Dialectic: the movement of binaries and internal and external conflicts that govern the universe and the human being.” The evidence links this to glorification, understood as “affirming the law of movement, development, and separation/transformation in beings.”
Accordingly, what is established here is the definition of dialectic in terms of movement and internal and external conflict, and the attribution of its governance to the universe and the human being.
Atlas Explanation
This page uses the heading “A General Law in the Universe” as shorthand because the evidence describes dialectic as governing the universe and the human being. This shorthand does not mean that the phrase “general law” occurs verbatim in the definition of dialectic itself.
For a reading of the broader structure of the argument, see: Muhammad Shahrur, the Book and the Qur’an, and History, Evolution, and Sunnas.
Conclusion
Within the limits of this evidence, dialectic may be understood as a framework for explaining movement and transformation in two domains connected in the wording: the universe and the human being. This is an explanatory inference based on the breadth of these two domains in the text, not an additional independent definition.
Open Question and Limits of the Evidence
The available evidence does not establish details of how dialectic operates in the brain, psyche, or consciousness, nor does it specify its relation to changes in legislation. Nor does it establish here that “dialectic” and “duality” are synonymous or identical; investigation of this is left to the structural page and its specific evidence.
Source atom: Dialectic and duality are two laws for explaining change.
the Book and the Qur’an · Dialectic and duality are two laws for explaining change