Critics of Hegel today find themselves in a curious situation. They are obliged to reject dialectical idealism not because it fails to solve the problems of philosophy but because it seems to solve them too well.
For the ancients, and in the various tendencies which culminate in Neoplatonism, philosophy was always a kind of Éω;σιι for Hegel, however, standing at the end of these traditions, it is both less and considerably more.