Full Idea
For Hegel, philosophy's principal task is to disclose the enduring necessity and rationality of the categories and forms of nature and spirit that it examines.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy aims to reveal the necessity and rationality of the categories of nature and spirit
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 4 'Phenomenology'
Book Reference
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.104
A Reaction
The idea that a miserable little evolved and transient mammal on a tiny planet has direct insight into the necessities and categories of nature and spirit looks a shade optimistic to me. You have to admire the ambition, though.