objective spirit

American  

noun

Hegelianism.

1. the human spirit, insofar as it has become capable of a rational identification of its individual self with the community of other spirits but is not yet capable of the identification with the absolute idea that characterizes the absolute spirit.

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Example Sentences

Straube and Ramin, as part of the “objective” spirit that dominated culture in the Weimar Republic, inveighed against expressionism.

From New York Times

John’s songs are co-written by lyricist Bernie Taupin, whose lyrics often capture the same timeless, objective spirit of the Band’s Robbie Robertson.

From Los Angeles Times

The moral life is the perfection of spirit objective—the truth of the subjective and objective spirit itself.

From Project Gutenberg

The subjective and the objective spirit are to be looked on as the road on which this aspect of reality or existence rises to maturity.

From Project Gutenberg

Only a small fraction 187 of Goethe’s work was written in an impersonal and objective spirit, and sprang from what might be called a conscious artistic impulse; by far the larger—and the better—part is the immediate reflex of his feelings and experiences.

From Project Gutenberg