🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

hegeliano

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /e.ɡeˈli.ɐ.nu/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hegelian/həˈɡeɪ.li.ən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O movimento hegeliano influenciou a política moderna."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or characteristic of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, particularly his dialectical approach in which thesis and antithesis are resolved in a synthesis.

    "The professor presented a Hegelian analysis of historical progress."
As noun
  1. 1

    A follower or student of Hegel's philosophical system.

    "Several prominent 19th-century Hegelians reinterpreted his metaphysics through a materialist lens."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the proper surname of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), combined with the English adjectival suffix -ian. The term emerged in the 19th century to describe the philosophical system developed by Hegel, particularly emphasizing dialectical idealism and historical progression.

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