Right Hegelians

The Right Hegelians (

left-wing and progressive politics or views on religion.^[1]

Overview

Hegel's

Lutheran. He devoted considerable attention to the Absolute

, his term for the infinite Spirit responsible for the totality of reality. This Spirit comes to fullest expression in art, religion, and philosophy. But the objectivity of these is the State, specifically the modern constitutional monarchy. In his Philosophy of Right, Hegel writes that:

The state is absolutely rational inasmuch as it is the actuality of the substantial will which it possesses in the particular self-consciousness once that consciousness has been raised to consciousness of its universality. This substantial unity is an absolute unmoved end in itself, in which freedom comes into its supreme right. On the other hand this final end has supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State.^[2]^[3]
— Philosophy of Right (1821), "The State", paragraph 258

The Hegelian right expanded this conception of

industrialization, and high employment, as the acme of progress and the incarnation of the Zeitgeist

.

Many of the members of the Hegelian right went on to have distinguished careers in public academia or the Lutheran Church. As a school, they were closely associated with the

higher criticism by demonstrating the influence of an era on the development of Christianity. Other members of the Hegelian Right included the Erlangen School of Neo-Lutherans, whose influence continues to the present day in confessional Lutheranism

.

Recent studies have questioned the paradigm of Left- and Right-Hegelianism. [4] No Hegelians of the period ever referred to themselves as "Right Hegelians", which was a term of insult originated by David Strauss, a self-styled Left Hegelian. Critiques of Hegel offered by the Left Hegelians radically diverted Hegel's thinking into new directions and eventually came to form a large part of the literature on and about Hegel.^[5]

Speculative theism

Speculative theism was an 1830s movement closely related to but distinguished from Right Hegelianism.

historiography of philosophy.^[9]

People

Philosophers within the camp of the Hegelian right include:

Other thinkers or historians who may be included among the Hegelian right, with some reservations, include:

Hegelian theologians

Rationalistic

Erlangen school

References

JSTOR 2026775
.

^ Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1942). Philosophy of Right. Translated by Knox, T. M. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. p. 155f.

ISBN 978-1-60520-424-6
.

ISBN 978-0-231-07499-5.^{[page needed}
]

ASIN B00BQ47APM
.

ISBN 978-0-521-38274-8
.

ISBN 978-0-7391-7337-4
.

ISBN 978-0-521-00380-3
.

ISBN 978-0-521-41848-5
.

External links

Hegelianismus – cpw-online.de

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Right_Hegelians&oldid=1218448995"

[1] JSTOR 2026775
.

[2] Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1942). Philosophy of Right. Translated by Knox, T. M. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. p. 155f.

[3] ISBN 978-1-60520-424-6
.

[4] ISBN 978-0-231-07499-5.^{[page needed}
]

[5] ASIN B00BQ47APM
.

[6] ISBN 978-0-521-38274-8
.

[7] ISBN 978-0-7391-7337-4
.

[8] ISBN 978-0-521-00380-3
.

[9] ISBN 978-0-521-41848-5
.

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