At first a sensualist, like Condillac and Locke, next an intellectualist, he finally shows himself a mystical theosophist.
He is realistic and idealistic, individualistic and universalistic, monistic and dualistic, sensationalist and intellectualist, naturalist and supernaturalist, rationalist and mystic, gnostic and agnostic. He is the prince of the Vermittler in philosophy, ethics, religion and theology.
Hegel's is an intellectualist monism, explaining matter, sensation, personal individuality and will as forms of thought.
The book contains an intellectualist, static, determinist, abstractive trend.
There is an intellectualist logic coalescent with an absolutist metaphysic as aforesaid.
There is perhaps no serious misrepresentation involved in regarding a key-thought of this type, though not necessarily expressed in those verbal forms, as pervading such logic of the present as coheres with a philosophy of the absolute conceived from a point of view that is intellectualist throughout.
Thoroughly intellectualist, and rational, and supernaturalist, it has no one to champion it to-day, yet its influence is everywhere.