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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

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 Perry, Ralph Barton

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 Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

But both were reformers; both stimulated the revolt against the cold spirit of the last century; both contributed to create, the one indirectly, the other intentionally, a subjective spirit by their psychological analysis.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey

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

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