Antithesis

File Name: Esoteric Taijitu.svg Description:This is a version of the yin-yang symbol or Taijitu (∫)) often used by Taoist internal alchemists. In the traditional Taijitu, the hot, bright, white yang nature rises while the cold, dark, black yin nature descends. Taoist esoterics will often invert the symbol because they believe in this configuration the heat from the yang will be able to cook the jing in the yin producing qi which leads toward longer life and immortality.

The antithesis (from the Greek ἀντίθεσις, antithesis, 'contrast, opposition'; from the roots anti- & #39;contra-' and thesis 'placement, positioning') is an opposition between two contrary or complementary terms. The term is used in rhetoric, where it designates an expressive device, and in philosophy (especially in the dialectic associated with Hegel).

Antithesis (rhetoric)

Antithesis is a stylistic resource that consists of contrasting two phrases, phrases or verses in each of which ideas of opposite or contrary meaning are expressed (antithesis itself) or more subjective and elusive impressions. indefinite that feel like opposites (contrast) Observe how in this sonnet Lope responds to Góngora's reproaches for being too clear, mainly using antithesis in the second stanza and in the final verse:

Livio, I was always your devotee,

never to the faith of perjury friendship;

you in love, as in verses, hard,

You have the tie to broken consonants,

If you're imperceptible, if remote,

I soft, easy, elegant and pure;

as clear I write as you hear:

The vega is flat and intricate the soto.

I am also a friend's ornament;

only in the impossible troop strikes

And from this mistake, my numbers are detached.

In the solid sentence,

because they leave the pen and the punishment

dark eraser and clear verse.

Other examples

Lope de Vega, Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé Burguillos (1624), no. 147.

You're like the Rose.

of the tile

colorful at night,

White day.

(traditional)

José Agustín Goytisolo wrote these verses:

Children go in the sun

and the girls, by the moon.

Federico Novalis:

heart is fed, empty the world.

Pablo Neruda wrote:

Love is so short, and forgetfulness is so long.

Ruben Dario:

When I want to cry I don't cry,

And sometimes I cry without want.

Proverbs:

The gentle response takes away anger,

But the rough word increases the anger (15:1)

Antithesis (philosophy)

In philosophy, the antithesis is a counter-affirmation (negation) to a previous proposition (thesis). Through the antithesis you can proceed to a refutation. Antitheses are usually headed by expressions such as "but", "however" or "on the contrary".

In Hegel's dialectic and German idealism, the antithesis together with the thesis forms a synthesis, although it should be noted that Hegel himself did not use any of these terms.