Abstract

This essay presents Hegelian dialectic not as a “thesis–antithesis–synthesis” concordance of content but as a formal transition that relocates the locus of contradiction. The in-itself–for-itself–in-and-for-itself marks a perspectival shift that returns an external opposition into an internal gap; therefore, dialectic is not expansion but a procedure of reflection. From this vantage, Kant’s “thing-in-itself” names the **minimal difference (negativity)** immanent to a thing; consequently, “being = thought” is not a totalitarian slogan but the self-transparency of speculative judgment.