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Geist (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a German noun with a significant degree of importance in German philosophy. Geist can be roughly translated into three English meanings: ghost (as in the supernatural entity), spirit (as in the Holy Spirit), and mind or intellect. Some English translators resort to using "spirit/mind" or "spirit (mind)" to ...
Geist (German for 'spirit') is a distilled beverage obtained by maceration of unfermented fruit or other raw materials in neutral spirits, followed by distillation. [1] This differs from fruit brandy , where the alcohol comes from fermenting the fruit's naturally occurring sugars.
This is a list of some Spanish words of Germanic origin. The list includes words from Visigothic , Frankish , Langobardic , Middle Dutch , Middle High German , Middle Low German , Old English , Old High German , Old Norse , Old Swedish , English , and finally, words which come from Germanic with the specific source unknown.
The German Geist has a wide range of meanings. [164] In its most general Hegelian sense, however, "Geist denotes the human mind and its products, in contrast to nature and also the logical idea." [165] (Some older translations render it as "mind," rather than "spirit." [s])
Geistesgeschichte (from German Geist, "spirit" or "mind" [here connoting the metaphysical realm, in contradistinction to the material], and Geschichte, "history") is a concept in the history of ideas denoting the branch of study concerned with the undercurrents of cultural manifestations, within the history of a people, that are peculiar to a specific timeframe.
Geist (surname) Geist, Indianapolis, an area in northeastern Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, named after Geist Reservoir, which it surrounds; Geist, the German name for Apața Commune, Braşov County, Romania; Geist (restaurant) restaurant in an NRHP blacksmith building in Nashville Tennessee; Mount Geist, a mountain in Alaska
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a Zeitgeist [1] (German pronunciation: [ˈtsaɪtɡaɪst] ⓘ; lit. ' spirit of the age '; capitalized in German) is an invisible agent, force, or daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history. [2]
Geisteswissenschaft, German pronunciation: [ˈɡaɪ.stəs.ˌvɪ.sən.ʃaft] (plural: Geisteswissenschaften, German pronunciation: [ˈɡaɪ.stəs.ˌvɪ.sən.ʃaf.tən ...