He devoted considerable attention to the Absolute, his term for the infinite Spirit responsible for the totality of reality.
[2][3]The Hegelian right expanded this conception of statism, seizing on it as an affirmation of establishment politics and orthodox religion.
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.
Their efforts did not have 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.