“For Hegel” the spiritual, the ideal, the self-conscious which is the ultimate meaning of everything, does not lie at the beginning of thought and being, but rather at their end: we may decide that it is the logical and ontological Alpha of the cosmos, but only after it has first emerged as its logical and ontological Omega” (Hegel and Teleology, Ascent to the Absolute, p. 132).
“[For Hegel] the content of the Absolute Idea, the goal of the dialectic, is simply said to be ‘the system of which we have been hitherto studying the development’, i.e. dialectic itself, where the end of the journey is simply seen to be the journey itself, and the method that has been followed on the journey (”Hegel and Teleology, Ascent to the Absolute, p. 135).