Full Idea
In Hegel the Absolute is the exhaustive, unconditioned and self-grounding system of concepts made concrete in actuality, the world of experience.
Gist of Idea
The Absolute is the primitive system of concepts which are actualised
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Science of Logic [1816]) by Sebastian Gardner - Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason 10 'Absolute'
Book Reference
Gardner,Sebastian: 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason' [Routledge 1999], p.336
A Reaction
If I collect multiple attempts to explain what the Absolute is, I may one day drift toward a hazy understanding of it. Right now this idea means nothing to me, but I pass it on. His notion of 'concept' seems a long way from the normal modern one.