subjective spirit

noun

, Hegelianism.

1. spirit, insofar as it falls short of the attainments of objective spirit.

Example Sentences

They also examined the more subjective “spirit” of their policies.

From Time

In this ideal, or the concrete shape born of the subjective spirit, its natural immediacy, which is only a sign of the Idea, is so transfigured by the informing spirit in order to express the Idea, that the figure shows it and it alone:—the shape or form of Beauty.

From Project Gutenberg

The ‘subjective’ spirit extends, we saw, into many of the longer poems.

From Project Gutenberg

Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions on a Connecticut farm before the first abstract canvas was done by Wassily Kandinsky in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

The idea of subjective spirit, as well as that of Art, Science, and Religion, forms the essential condition for Pedagogics, but does not contain its principle.

From Project Gutenberg