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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 Baring, Evelyn

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

The G minor Symphony is universally acknowledged to be the highest achievement of 18th century instrumental music and is also premonitory of that subjective spirit peculiar to the 19th century.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

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 Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

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