Hegelianism

[hey-gey-lee-uh-niz-uhm, hi-jee-]

noun

1. the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hegelianism¹

First recorded in 1855–60; Hegelian + -ism

Example Sentences

This was the essence of Marx’s Hegelianism.

From The New Yorker

It is a continual problem; perhaps examinations are only a pis aller, and we must be content to wait till science instructs us how to gauge mental faculty by experiment without subjecting the philosopher to the ordeal of Latin Prose, and the 'pure scholar' to the test of a possibly useless acquaintance with the true inwardness of Hegelianism.

From Project Gutenberg

Philosophy.—Hegelianism is confessedly one of the most difficult of all philosophies.

From Project Gutenberg

At a later date, with the call of Schelling to Berlin in 1841, it became fashionable to speak of Hegelianism as a negative philosophy requiring to be complemented by a “positive” philosophy which would give reality and not mere ideas.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the very aim of Hegelianism to render fluid the fixed phases of reality—to show existence not to be an immovable rock limiting the efforts of thought, but to have thought implicit in it, waiting for release from its petrifaction.

From Project Gutenberg