Sorry but use of a DICTIONARY OF PHILOSOPHY is easier facilitated than an regular dictionary coz they are specialized terms, as a “mouse” for a computer is not a gray animal living as found in dictionaries of HEGEL`s times...’TIMES ‘HEGEL`s TIMES’= ‘HEGEL`s WORLD’- GOT IT NOW?
ZEITGEIST WEBSTER = “the trend of culture”
Well, cultures apply to “CIVILIZATIONS” WHICH EXIST ONLY IN THE WORLD-
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“TIMES” refers to cultures present at a certain time in the WORLD<, not clocks.
EXAMPLE ‘It was different world then’
= ‘it was a different time then”
= ‘They were different times then”= GOT IT?
ERGO< ‘WORLD GHOST’ IS MORE APT A TRANSLATION coz I never knew of a ghost that lived in a clock.
I tried to find an online dictionary of philosophy, and my search led to Oxford Reference, which apparently includes a philosophy dictionary. Their definition was similar to Webster’s.
A Boolean search for “world ghost” AND zeitgeist on Google led back to this thread.
Next time I go to USC or Cal State Fullerton, I’ll look at a print philosophy dictionary to see what it says.