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Geist
- For the Canadian magazine see Geist (magazine); For the video game, see Geist (video game)
Geist is German for mind, also for spirit and ghost. It is a central concept in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, and is similar to Heidegger's concept of Dasein, in that both are terms to describe the aspects of a being that are attempting to apprehend and understand the world.and
It is a component of the adopted words zeitgeist and poltergeist.
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