Hegelian

Hegel +‎ -ian

• (UK) IPA^(key): /heɪˈɡeɪlɪən/, /heɪˈɡiːlɪən/, /hɪˈɡiːlɪən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /həˈɡeɪli.ən/

Hegelian (comparative more Hegelian, superlative most Hegelian)

1. (philosophy) Of or pertaining to the philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).
   • 1921, Joseph Conrad, “The Crime of Partition”, in Notes on Life & Letters‎^[1], London: J. M. Dent & Sons, pages 165–166:

     The Germanic Tribes had told the whole world in all possible tones carrying conviction, the gently persuasive, the coldly logical; in tones Hegelian, Nietzschean, warlike, pious, cynical, inspired, what they were going to do to the inferior races of the earth, so full of sin and all unworthiness.

   • 2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     As events such as 9/11, the Afghan and Iraq wars and the 2008 financial crisis took their toll on liberalism’s self-confidence, Fukuyama’s work was denounced as the height of Hegelian hubris.

Hegelian (plural Hegelians)

1. A follower of Hegel's philosophy.

• anti-Hegelian
• Hegelese
• Hegelianism