Definition of "antitheses" []

• Plural form of antithesis. (noun)

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• "It is easy to oppose inspiration to scholastic culture; to coin antitheses between nature and art; and to say that Shakspeare's Romans are more ideally true than Niebuhr's."
• "All these ideologies although they reflected in fact the sentiment directly due to social antitheses, that is to say, the real class struggles, with a lofty sense of justice and a profound devotion to an ideal, nevertheless all reveal ignorance of the true causes against which they hurled themselves by a an act of revolt spontaneous and often heroic."
• "Thus in Hegel's scheme, all negations are "antitheses" of the original "thesis", but without their cancelling each other out."