hegelianism means the system of logic and philosophy set forth by G. W. F. Hegel, which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", i.e. all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “hegelianism” is a great word
HEGELIANISM — [Noun] The philosophical system of G. W. F. Hegel, which asserts that reality is rational and comprehensible through a dialectical process of thought. From the proper name Hegel (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) + the English suffix -ian (forming adjectives meaning 'pertaining to') + the suffix -ism (forming nouns denoting a system, theory, or practice). First recorded in English 1855–60. Unlike Kantianism, which emphasizes the limits of pure reason and the unknowability of things-in-themselves, or Marxism, which applies a materialist and economically deterministic interpretation to the dialectic, Hegelianism is a thoroughgoing idealism where Spirit unfolds through contradiction and reconciliation. It is the relentless engine of thesis-antithesis-synthesis grinding through history, the concrete shape of a nation's laws made manifest from abstract freedom, and the vertiginous moment when the particular is recognized as an expression of the universal. It is the mind’s most systematic attempt to think itself as the world.
Etymology
From Hegelian + -ism.
noun
- The system of logic and philosophy set forth by G. W. F. Hegel, which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", i.e. all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories.