Hegel

American  

[hey-guhl] / ˈheɪ gəl /

noun

1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770–1831, German philosopher.

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Hegel British  

/ ˈheɪɡəl /

noun

1. 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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Other Word Forms

• Hegelianism
  noun
• Hegelian
  adjective

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Hegel

Caesar, Hegel writes, was driven by “an unconscious impulse that occasioned the accomplishment of that for which the time was ripe.”

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026

Plato and Hegel, in case you were wondering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

On his desk were books by Oscar Wilde and Hegel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

In a blog post to be published Thursday, Hegel said the digital indicators published by JumpCloud tied the hackers to activity previously attributed to North Korea.

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2023

After the war’s end, however, he turned down Ernest’s offer to continue as the lab manager in order to resume the classroom teaching of Hegel and Marx.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik