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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spirit in the Condition of Being Certain of Itself: Morality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the formation of laws according to Hegel?
(a) The movement of the mind.
(b) The existence of the mind.
(c) The education of the mind.
(d) The subordination of the mind.

2. What serves as a model for duties for individuals in Hegel's opinion?
(a) Duty to the spirit.
(b) Duty to one's own education.
(c) Duty within the family.
(d) Duty to the community.

3. In Hegel's view, how are laws of thought connected?
(a) By history.
(b) By logic.
(c) By science.
(d) By reason.

4. What is the contradiction at the heart of absolute reality according to Hegel?
(a) The individual learns about existence from individual existence and also from external reality.
(b) The individual intuits the existence of life beyond himself but can never know anything except through direct perception.
(c) Literacy and printing presses have made experiences transferable to people have not had the experience themselves.
(d) It is real but it is also a myth that is propagated in philosophy.

5. What does Hegel include in the limitations of laws?
(a) Limitations of observation.
(b) Limitations of reflection.
(c) Limitations of mind.
(d) Limitations of self-consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hegel, what is the avenue through which reality and that which exists in consciousness can come into existence?

2. According to the translator, what does "the fact of the matter" refer to?

3. What does Hegel say about the concept of absolute reality?

4. In Hegel's philosophy, where is duty found?

5. According to Hegel, what is "honest activity" related to?

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