在西方思想文化史中，精神觀念可謂多元又一體、即具傳承即創新、又充滿哲學與神學辯證過程之文化際融合概念。若能理解此觀念在西方之生成發展史與其於現代思潮之效應歷史，對於此觀念於西方文明之整體脈絡中之意義應有其價值，也可對當代東西方文化際對話有所助益。本文將此思路貫通至精神觀念在西方思想史中之高峰時期，亦即現代哲學中的主體意識論之發展－德意志觀念論，特別是黑格爾神哲學綜合體系哲思生成之核心亦即其精神觀念者。然後則試圖在以上複雜的西方思想史之效應歷史脈絡中構思一種辯證性－體系性詮釋學之精神觀念與精神文化世界理論，作為新世紀東西文化際對話之投石問路。

In the intellectual history of Western culture the idea of spirit is a intercultural fusion-concept which develops in the dialectical process of plurality and unity, tradition and innovation, philosophy and theology. If the genesis and development of this idea in the Western history and its effective history in the modem thought is understood, it would be valuable for the meaning and significance of this idea in the whole context of Western culture and helpful for the intercultural dialog between Western and Eastern culture. This essay attempts to give a general idea for the genesis of initial meanings of spirit in its western-cultural origins through a intellectual-historical approach of philosophical hermeneutics or the thinking-way of the so-called history of idea. The thought-process of this essay shall go through the summit of the idea of spirit in the Western intellectual history, namely in the development of the theory of subjectivity in the modem age, the German idealism, particularly Hegel's theological-philosophical synthesis-system, in which genesis and development the core-concept is the idea of spirit. Finally in this complex context from Western intellectual history to the effective history it would be tried to conceptualize the idea of spirit and a frame-work for a theory of spiritual-culture-world in the dialectical-systemic hermeneutics, which shall also introduce a hermeneutical pattern for the intercultural dialog between Eastern and Western culture in the new era.