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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Observation of Nature as an Organic Whole.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What relation binds the object and the perceiver in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Understanding.
(b) History.
(c) The World-Spirit.
(d) Reason.

2. What else does Reason require in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) A degree of monomania.
(b) The self-evidence of the self and the world.
(c) An acceptable myth describing the nature of self and world.
(d) Doubt as to the nature of the self and the world.

3. To what does the term "sensibility" apply according to Hegel?
(a) All living things.
(b) The entire universe.
(c) All humans.
(d) Humans and animals.

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

5. How does Hegel define "irritability"?
(a) As a the consequence of reconciliation.
(b) As an organism's ability to act out.
(c) As a constant in conscious life.
(d) As a failure of reflection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of force in Hegel's philosophy?

2. How do objects achieve identity according to Hegel?

3. According to Hegel, why is even a killer dissatisfied with the self-certainty that comes from killing another person?

4. What does Hegel explain in the introduction of The Phenomenology of Mind?

5. According to Hegel, pon what does the reality of a notion depend?

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