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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Observation as a Process of Reason: Observation of Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hegel mean by "concrete"?
(a) Filled with potential.
(b) Devoid of consciousness.
(c) Experiential and actual.
(d) Filled with divine actuality.

2. What is a pre-condition to Reason according to Hegel?
(a) Stable sources of food and shelter.
(b) Transcendent self-awareness.
(c) Double consciousness.
(d) Stable self-certainty.

3. What do both parts of a lordship/bondage relationship seek in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Equilibrium.
(b) Self-certainty of consciousness.
(c) The elimination of the other.
(d) Dominance.

4. How does Hegel describe reason?
(a) As uniquely human.
(b) As an evolutionary benefit.
(c) As evidence of the divine.
(d) As a stage of mind.

5. Which claim does Hegel make about the mind?
(a) That it is the basis of all claims about reality.
(b) That it is exempt from claims about observations.
(c) That it can observe itself.
(d) That it can only see itself through Reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?

2. What are noumena according to Hegel?

3. In what way could Hegel see a person, a table and a fruit as all identical?

4. What field does Hegel defend in the Preface and Introduction?

5. How does Hegel describe force?

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