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

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 • May 23, 2019

Your Assembly must decide, as the Guardian already told dear Mr. Schopflocher23 when he was here, upon the advisability of maintaining the Laurentian School24, in an objective spirit.

From Messages to Canada by Shoghi Effendi

But as an object of contemplation for the present, as objective spirit rather than corporeal presence, Grace Melbury would serve to keep his soul alive, and to relieve the monotony of his days.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

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

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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 Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich