Right Hegelians

The Right Hegelians were 19th-century philosophers who interpreted Hegel’s thought as compatible with Christian orthodoxy and support for the Prussian state.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: A German philosopher whose idealist system interpreted reality, history, and thought as developing through reason. His philosophy supplied the framework the Right Hegelians defended and interpreted.
Hegelianism: A philosophical movement that developed, revised, and contested the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The Right Hegelians were one branch of this broader movement.
Left Hegelians: A group of Hegelian thinkers who used Hegel’s philosophy to criticize religious and political institutions. They opposed the Right Hegelians’ defense of Christian orthodoxy and the Prussian state.
Prussian state: The monarchy and governmental institutions that ruled Prussia until its abolition in 1918. Right Hegelians interpreted Hegel’s account of the state as support for Prussian political authority.
Karl Friedrich Göschel: A German Hegelian philosopher and jurist who argued that Hegel’s philosophy supported Christian doctrine. His writings offered a prominent reconciliation of Hegelian philosophy and Christian orthodoxy.
Hegelian school: The circle of students and intellectual successors who developed and debated Hegel’s philosophy. Its internal divisions produced the distinction between Right and Left Hegelians.
Young Hegelians: A radical circle of German thinkers who criticized Christianity and the existing political order through Hegelian ideas. Their radical critique sharpened the contrast with the Right Hegelians’ conservative conclusions.
German idealism: A philosophical movement that developed in German-speaking Europe from the late 18th to early 19th century. Right Hegelianism continued debates within the wider idealist tradition.
Heinrich Gustav Hotho: A German philosopher and art historian who edited and published Hegel’s lectures on aesthetics. His editorial work helped present Hegel’s system to later generations of scholars.
Hegel's Philosophy of Religion: Hegel’s account of religion as a form of consciousness expressing truths also grasped conceptually by philosophy. Disagreement about its implications for Christian doctrine shaped the Right Hegelian position.

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