Status Updates From Hegel: A Very Short Introdu...

> On Hegel’s view, mind comes to its final resting-place when he, Hegel, understands the nature of reality. There can scarcely be a more momentous conclusion to a work of philosophy.

I'd have said 'arrogant', but sure, 'momentous' works too, I guess.

Chapter 5 was on Logic and Dialectics. The goal of logic is truth. The dialectical method is to develop a thesis, then the antithesis, then the synthesis - which can then become a new thesis. The chapter also goes on to discuss Hegel's religious standpoint, and decides he is a panentheist, that all is God, but God is more than the sum of all.

Chapter 4, the Odyssey of the Mind, discussed Hegel's concept of Geist and his Phenomenology of the Mind, showing how Hegel arrived at the conclusion that reality is constructed by mind, absolute knowledge is the mind knowing itself in the shape of mind, and that there is one reality because there is only one mind.

Chapter 3 covered Hegel's thoughts on community and freedom, how those thoughts sprang from Kant and attempted to resolve weaknesses in Kant's philosophies.

Chapter 1 gave an overview of Hegel's life and times, and Chapter 2 gave an overview of his idea that history had a purpose, and the philosophy of history was about the rise of individual freedom and free will.