Hegelian Dialectics

Comprises three dialectical stages of development: 

1. a thesis, 
2. an antithesis which is  a response to the thesis that contradicts or negates the thesis, and 
3. a synthesis which resolves the tension between the two. 

NOTE: Hegel never used these terms (see PowerPoint lecture)

For further reading:

Hegel's Dialectics on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy