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Hegelian

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See also: hegelian

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Etymology

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From Hegel +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /heɪˈɡeɪlɪən/, /heɪˈɡiːlɪən/, /hɪˈɡiːlɪən/
  • (US) IPA(key): /həˈɡeɪli.ən/

Adjective

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Hegelian (comparative more Hegelian, superlative most Hegelian)

  1. (philosophy) Of or pertaining to the philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).
    • 1921, Joseph Conrad, “The Crime of Partition”, in Notes on Life & Letters[1], London: J. M. Dent & Sons, pages 165–166:
      The Germanic Tribes had told the whole world in all possible tones carrying conviction, the gently persuasive, the coldly logical; in tones Hegelian, Nietzschean, warlike, pious, cynical, inspired, what they were going to do to the inferior races of the earth, so full of sin and all unworthiness.
    • 2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
      As events such as 9/11, the Afghan and Iraq wars and the 2008 financial crisis took their toll on liberalism’s self-confidence, Fukuyama’s work was denounced as the height of Hegelian hubris.

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Noun

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Hegelian (plural Hegelians)

  1. A follower of Hegel's philosophy.

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