 Stating that there was, in effect, a unity between person and material nature, Rădulescu-Motru developed his own version of Personalism, which thought of the human being and its personality as the goal of evolution in nature – a theory he called "Energetic Personalism".He recognized the influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's views on the relation between being and the whole, arguing that his idealist concept of externalization ("the belief that the world is being led by our ideal", which he deemed "transitory Personalism") had been the driving force behind all modern ideologies, from Socialism and Anarchism to Liberalism ("see Right Hegelians and Left Hegelians").Owing to Wundt's "Völkerpsychologie", Rădulescu-Motru dedicated much of his work to assessing and defining nationalism in Romanian social context.