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Old Hegelians

The conservative wing of the school of Hegel in Germany in the 1830s and 1840s; they endeavoured to interpret his teaching in an orthodox Christian spirit. At first, the Old Hegelians (K. Hoschel, F. Hinrichs, G. Gabler) took advantage of the conflicting and inconsistent delineation between philosophy and religion in the Hegelian system to infer the synthesis of reason and faith. The later Old Hegelians (Ch. Weisse and I. Fichte, Jr.) developed their doctrine as a counterweight to radical Young Hegelians. They insisted on the need for "correcting" Hegel in the spirit of Schelling's "philosophy of identity" and the theodicy of Leibniz.