Hegel is an optimist. He sees in the world the same rationality he sees in our mind, in which he has infinite faith. He thinks that evil doesn't exist per se, but is only a step in the revealing of good. His philosophy is the last step in finalism/theism, before the explosion of nihilism.
He also is an organicist, because the part exists only as function of the whole, which he calls "the Absolute". In the same way, for Hegel human society should mirror this rational organicism he sees in nature.
In fact he delegitimizes the individual, and idolizes the State. For many, Hegel is the founder of the idea of the totalitarian state.
Useless to say, I don't have very much sympathy for Hegel :)