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St. Louis Hegelians

St. Louis Hegelians
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The St. Louis Hegelians were a group of thinkers based in St. Louis, Missouri, who flourished in the 1860s. They were influenced by German idealism and Hegelianism. They were led by William Torrey Harris and Henry Conrad Brokmeyer were responsible for the publication of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy from 1867 to 1893, a non–theological organ which published an early essay on Friedrich Schiller written by Josiah Royce. Other members of the school included William McKendree Bryant and Thomas Davidson.

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  1. The notion was set in sharp antithesis to the conception of "making" or manufacturing institutions and constitutions, which was treated as one of the fallacies of the French philosophy of the Enlightenment. A combination of this notion of universal organic growth with the technique of prior idealism may fairly be said to have determined Hegel's whole philosophy.

    John Dewey, German philosophy and politics

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  2. But from the breaking up of the Hegelian school there proceeded another, the only one which has borne real fruit, and this tendency is coupled with the name of Marx.[2]

    Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach

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  3. Lastly, German philosophy, that most complicated, but at the same time most sure thermometer of the development of the German mind, had declared for the middle class, when Hegel in his "Philosophy of Law" pronounced Constitutional Monarchy to be the final and most perfect form of government. In other words, he proclaimed the approaching advent of the middle classes of the country to political power. His school…

    Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution

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Part of American philosophy.

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