Full Idea
For Hegel, the absolute truth of humanity is that human beings have no fixed, given identity, but rather determine and produce their own identity and their world in history, and that they gradually come to the recognition of this fact in history.
Gist of Idea
Humans have no fixed identity, but produce and reveal their shifting identity in history
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 01
Book Reference
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.17
A Reaction
This quintessentially existentialist idea, most obvious in Sartre, seems to have originated with this view of Hegel's.