Hegelianism, the collection of philosophical movements that developed out of the thought of the 19th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The term is here so construed as to exclude Hegel himself and to include, therefore, only the ensuing Hegelian movements.
Hegelian philosophy has no distinct doctrine of its own; its content is the right understanding of past attempts at account-giving in their limitations and interconnection.
The “Hegelian Leftists" (also referred to as "Young Hegelians") were mostly indirect disciples of Hegel who interpreted Hegelianism in a revolutionary sense, at first pantheistic and later atheistic.
Characteristic of the Hegelian position is the claim that rational structure is historical and dialectical: The rational structure of the real is not a static and self-consistent body of facts, but a dynamic process unfolding through the systematic resolution of dialectical contradictions.
As an intellectual tradition, the history of Hegelianism is the history of the reception and influence of the thought of G.W.F. Hegel.
Hegelianism is a philosophical school based on the writings of the German Idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the philosophical tradition that began with him. It was centered in Germany during the mid-19th Century.
Hegelianism emphasizes that reality is not static but a dynamic and rational process unfolding through contradictions, conflicts, and their eventual resolution.
It follows that the job of the Hegelian philosopher is to provide an encyclopedic assimilation of almost every branch of human knowledge as part of a rational reconstruction of human development toward the ultimate goal of achieving synthesis through the contention of thesis and antithesis.