neo-Hegelianism

noun

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variants or Neo-Hegelianism

1

: the philosophy of a school of chiefly British and American idealists following Hegel in his logical method and emphasizing organismic rather than atomistic conceptions

2

: one of a group of philosophical theories based on Hegelian principles advanced especially by German and Italian philosophers

Word History

Etymology

ne- + hegelianism

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