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What does it mean?
The dialectic must include health, sickness, reason, and unreason together, not stop before them.
In plain terms
You can’t separate health from illness or reason from unreason.
What can you take from it?
Consider opposites together in analysis.

Where it applies

  • philosophical debate
  • medical ethics
  • psychology

Putting it to work

  • balanced policy making
  • integrated health care

Questions to consider

  • What does it mean to treat opposites as parts of one system?

Another view

It may be hard to apply when categories are deeply entrenched.

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