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subjective spirit

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noun

Hegelianism.
  1. spirit, insofar as it falls short of the attainments of objective spirit.


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Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions on a Connecticut farm before the first abstract canvas was done by Wassily Kandinsky in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Generally speaking, the subjective spirit has prevailed amongst historians in all ages.

From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Evelyn Baring

The idea of subjective spirit, as well as that of Art, Science, and Religion, forms the essential condition for Pedagogics, but does not contain its principle.

From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett

The new awakening of spirit which is for Hegel the consummation of the natural evolution, begins with the individual or subjective spirit, and develops into the social or objective spirit, which is morality and history.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

This content, this determination we cannot yet call religion because to religion belongs subjective spirit consciousness.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

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