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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The monist, idealist philosophy of Hegel in which the dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis is used as an analytic tool in order to approach a higher unity or a new thesis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), which during the second quarter of the nineteenth century was the leading system of metaphysical thought in Germany.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).

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  • noun The system of logic and philosophy set forth by G. W. F. Hegel, which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", i.e. all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories.

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Examples

  • The quickness of these dead philosophies is evident not only in the imposing form of Hegel, under whose shadow Schelling could still be said to be struggling, but also, more anxiously and melancholically, in the "Hegelianism" that Schelling himself once powerfully advanced and was never able completely to disavow.

    Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000

  • Badiou's revision of Hegelianism — the problem with multiculturalism is that it is a false universality — demonstrates a second powerful interpretation of the secular, which has its origins in

    Romantic Fear 2008

  • The explanation of the feeling with which Ferrier writes lies in the fact his little book is a response to the charge levelled against him in the contest for Hamilton's Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh (then still in the gift of the Town Council), when he was accused by the Free Church party of departing from “the Scottish philosophy” in favour of some sort of Hegelianism.

    Ted Marcel Inhoff 2009

  • Whether or not one wishes to view things through the faulty lenses of Hegelianism, certainly the liturgical reform pretty desperately needs reforming -- and I don't know how one could go about fixing that collosal mess without reference to and guidance and inspiration from the traditional Roman Rite.

    More inculturation and liturgical "updating", courtesy of the Asian bishops 2009

  • Heiberg, more than any other person, was responsible for introducing Hegelianism into Denmark.

    Søren Kierkegaard McDonald, William 2009

  • Peirce's Hegelianism, which he increasingly professed as he approached his most mature philosophy, is more difficult to understand than his Kantianism, partly because it is everywhere intimately tied to his entire late theory of signs (semeiotic) and sign use (semeiosis), as well as to his evolutionism and to his rather puzzling doctrine of mind.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • Whether or not one wishes to view things through the faulty lenses of Hegelianism, certainly the liturgical reform pretty desperately needs reforming -- and I don't know how one could go about fixing that collosal mess without reference to and guidance and inspiration from the traditional Roman Rite.

    More inculturation and liturgical "updating", courtesy of the Asian bishops 2009

  • Bernstein has taught me, too, what Hegelianism is.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Remember that both Marx and Hitler, the extremes of "left" and "right" presented as textbook enemies, evolved out of the same philosophical system: Hegelianism.

    Obama's "War on Terror" 2009

  • Bernstein has taught me, too, what Hegelianism is.

    Unlikely music critic of the day (literally) Matthew Guerrieri 2007

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