Hegel
[ˈheɪgəl]
Definition
(noun.) German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831).
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Examples
- With Hegel the necessity of finding some working concrete counterpart of the inaccessible Absolute took an institutional, rather than symbolic, form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- According to Hegel, existing institutions are its effective actual representatives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- According to Hegel, it is worked out through a series of historical institutions which embody the different factors in the Absolute. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For all the parade of learning and dialectic is an after-thought--an accident from the fact that the prophetic genius of Marx appeared in Germany under the incubus of Hegel. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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