Absolute Spirit

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In Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: At Heidelberg
…the eternal cyclical process whereby Absolute Spirit comes to knowledge of itself as spirit (1) through its own thinking, (2) through nature, and (3) through finite spirits and their self-expression in history and their self-discovery—in art, in religion, and in philosophy—as one with Absolute Spirit itself.
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In Western philosophy: The idealism of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel
Therefore, what began in Hegel as a metaphysics of the Absolute ended by becoming a total philosophy of human culture.
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In Indian philosophy: 19th- and 20th-century philosophy in India and Pakistan
The Hegelian notion of Absolute Spirit found a resonance in the age-old Vedanta notion of brahman. The most eminent Indian Hegelian scholar is Hiralal Haldar, who was concerned with the problem of the relation of the human personality with the Absolute, as is evidenced by his book Neo-Hegelianism. The…
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