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Hegel

[ hey-guhl ]

noun

  1. Ge·org Wil·helm Frie·drich [gey, -aw, r, k , vil, -helm , free, -d, r, i, kh], 1770–1831, German philosopher.


Hegel

/ heɪˈɡiː-; hɪˈɡeɪlɪən; ˈheɪɡəl /

noun

  1. Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich17701831MGermanPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (ɡeˈɔrk ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfriːdrɪç). 1770–1831, German philosopher, who created a fundamentally influential system of thought. His view of man's mind as the highest expression of the Absolute is expounded in The Phenomenology of Mind (1807). He developed his concept of dialectic, in which the contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis), in Science of Logic (1812–16)


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Derived Forms

  • Hegelian, adjective
  • Heˈgelianˌism, noun

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Example Sentences

It used to be that when intellectuals heard the word “derivative,” they thought about what Marx took from Hegel.

An old joke went that only two people in history understood Hegel, and even they misunderstood him.

Aristotle was the father of logic, and Hegel and Kant think there has been no improvement upon it since his day.

Germany has become the breeding-place of this historical optimism; Hegel is perhaps to blame for this.

A somewhat similar grouping was adopted, though from the consideration of a wholly different set of relations, by Hegel.

With Hegel, a disciple of Schelling everything becomes pure obscurity, absolute confusion, chaos.

Emanuel Kant, and then Hegel and his disciples, had opened the way to unrestricted rationalism.

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hegariHegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich