Hegelian
/heɪˈɡiːlɪən/ /hɪˈɡiːlɪən/ /heɪˈɡeɪlɪən/adjective
Relating to or characteristic of the German philosopher Hegel or his ideas: the Hegelian conception of the state...
- But art history with its Hegelian roots has long been multifaceted and tensive; its dissonance is its strength.
- This is the truly Hegelian aspect of Odysseus, the idea that he must deny his identity in order to preserve it.
- Margaret may be viewed as Coleridgean/Hegelian in her desire for reconciliation, a creative synthesis of antithetical types.
noun
A follower of the ideas of the German philosopher Hegel: the early Marx was a Hegelian...
- But I try to prove that, without being aware of it, he was actually a Hegelian.
- I never understood people who called themselves Kantians or Hegelians, I was a strange mix of both.
- At the end of the nineteenth century, the leading academic philosophers, both in America and Great Britain, were largely Hegelians.
