what is important is the manner in which universality is concrete and not ‘merely ideal’ in the sense that essence(s) are not abstractions from material existence. Rather essences are immanent to immediately present being insofar as they come from being and they have a way of shaping our perspectives and experience (more to come on this).
https://epochemagazine.org/52/hegels-conceptual-materialism-finding-meaning-in-the-material-world/
Heroico Desembarazo 