 For Hegel, by contrast, a rational idea is a normative conception or structure, which, to be normative at all, needs to function as a norm (as a law) within some actual human community. Rational ideas, as such, are actualized or realized in human history, so that the questions then becomes one of understanding the historical-conceptual processes that can lead us towards higher forms of consciousness through increasingly comprehensive and coherent normative structures. This leads to the pivotal section on spirit in the Phenomenology, where the historical part of the exposition reaches a culmination, of sorts, in the discussion of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, the historical context wherein Hegel himself is located. And this sets the stage for the penultimate discussion of religion as the means for solving the remaining problem of fully internalizing the norms of morality by all members of a human community located within this same historical context.