The Right Hegelians ( German : Rechtshegelianer ), Old Hegelians ( Althegelianer ), or the Hegelian Right ( die Hegelsche Rechte ) were those followers of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in the early 19th century who took his philosophy in a politically and religiously conservative direction. They are typically contrasted with the Young Hegelians (Hegelian Left), who interpreted Hegel's political philosophy as supportive of left-wing and progressive politics or views on religion.
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32-552: A reassertion of the identity of Lutherans as a distinct group within the broader community of Christians , with a renewed focus on the Lutheran Confessions as a key source of Lutheran doctrine. Associated with these changes was an Evangelical-Catholic renewed focus on traditional doctrine and liturgy, which paralleled the growth of Anglo-Catholicism in England. It was sometimes even called "German Puseyism ". In
48-589: 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. The Hegelian right expanded this conception of statism , seizing on it as an affirmation of establishment politics and orthodox religion. Hegel's historicism could be read to affirm the historical necessity of modern forms of government. The Right Hegelians believed that advanced European societies, as they existed in
64-466: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Right Hegelians Hegel's historicism holds that both ideas and institutions can only be understood by understanding their history. Throughout his life, Hegel said he was an orthodox Lutheran . He devoted considerable attention to the Absolute , his term for the infinite Spirit responsible for
80-445: Is sometimes limited only to the theology and activity represented by Theodor Friedrich Dethlof Kliefoth , August Friedrich Christian Vilmar , Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe , August Friedrich Otto Münchmeyer , and Friedrich Julius Stahl , who had particularly high ecclesiology . They were against the idea of the invisible church , strongly contending that the church was an outward, visible institution of salvation. They emphasised
96-645: The Roman Catholic Church in Germany, neo-Lutheranism was paralleled by Johann Adam Möhler . The chief literary organ of the neo-Lutheranism was Evangelische Kirchenzeitung , edited by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg . Neo-Lutheranism developed as a reaction against the Prussian Union in a similar manner to the development of Tractarianism against the British government's decision to reduce
112-811: The University at Erlangen . The repristination theology group was represented by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg , Carl Paul Caspari , Gisle Johnson , Friedrich Adolf Philippi , C. F. W. Walther , and others. Repristination theology is more similar to later Confessional Lutheranism . In contrast, confessionalism to the Erlangen School was not to be static, but dynamic. The Erlangen School tried to combine Reformation theology with new learning and included Franz Hermann Reinhold von Frank , Theodosius Harnack , Franz Delitzsch , Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann , Karl Friedrich August Kahnis , Christoph Ernst Luthardt , and Gottfried Thomasius . Neo-Lutheranism
128-634: The Hegelian right, with some reservations, include: Neo-Lutheranism Bible Translators Theologians Neo-Lutheranism was a 19th-century revival movement within Lutheranism which began with the Pietist -driven Erweckung , or Awakening , and developed in reaction against theological rationalism and pietism . The movement followed the Old Lutheran movement and focused on
144-552: The Lutheran Church. As a school, they were closely associated with the University of Berlin , and held many of the chairs of philosophy and theology there. Generally, the philosophers of the Hegelian right have been neglected; their fame, if not their reputations, has been eclipsed by the Young Hegelians , including Bruno Bauer and Karl Marx . They left their mark chiefly in theology. Their efforts did not have
160-582: The first half of the nineteenth century, were the summit of all social development, the product of the historical dialectic that had existed thus far. Most praised the Prussian state, which enjoyed an extensive civil service system, good universities, 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
176-493: The intended effect of bolstering a sense of the inevitability of faith as a product of history; rather, they pioneered the introduction of 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
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#1732781002226192-540: The number of Irish bishoprics . The term has been defined different ways to distinguish it from the Old Lutherans movement, which was a schism in areas where a church union was enforced. A distinction developed in neo-Lutheranism whereby one side held to repristination theology, which attempted to restore historical Lutheranism , while the other held to the theology of the Erlangen School coming out of
208-692: The ordained ministry instituted by Christ and the significance of the sacraments over the Word as Means of Grace . However, unlike the Erlangen School, this type of neo-Lutheranism did not have a lasting influence on Lutheran theology. Properly speaking, High Church Lutheranism began in Germany much later, with the creation of the Hochkirchliche Vereinigung Augsburgischen Bekenntnisses in 1918, inspired by 95 theses Stimuli et Clavi of 1917, exactly 100 years after Claus Harms ' 95 theses. Neo-Lutheranism
224-481: The paradigm of Left- and Right-Hegelianism. 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. Speculative theism
240-489: 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
256-478: Was an 1830s movement closely related to but distinguished from Right Hegelianism. Its proponents ( Immanuel Hermann Fichte , Christian Hermann Weisse , Hermann Ulrici ) were united in their demand to recover the " personal God " after panlogist Hegelianism. The movement featured elements of anti-psychologism in the historiography of philosophy . Philosophers within the camp of the Hegelian right include: Other thinkers or historians who may be included among
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