1st order Hegelianism

Essentially Fichte, as the development of ideas through opposing arguments, thesis, antithesis, synthesis but not in such tight boxes. “A dialectical examination of consciousness and the contradictions it contains as process of coming to know something.” An ongoing process

2nd Order Hegelianism

The dialectic as the essential driving force of history, the evolution of the cosmos and god.

see “Absolute Knowing”

Hegel viewed the universe as consubstantial with god that through existence in all of its apparent contradictions comes to know itself as a unity.

Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition ~ Glenn Alexander Magee [AudioBook Part 1]