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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pleasure and Necessity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were both phrenology and cranioscopy looking for?
(a) A link between form and heredity.
(b) A link between form and individual traits.
(c) A link between man and God.
(d) A link between man and ape.

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

3. How does Hegel define a law?
(a) The relation of any element to the process of becoming an organic being.
(b) Anything that appears with profound consistency.
(c) Anything that binds the freedom of an organic entity.
(d) Anything capable of being observed as a perception of another.

4. Observation functions with regard to what in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Life and Death.
(b) Past and present.
(c) Nature and Mind.
(d) History and Spirit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hegel, self-consciousness is aware of itself relative to what?

2. What do both parts of a lordship/bondage relationship seek in Hegel's philosophy?

3. In Hegel's terminology, what does the term "sensibility" pertain to?

4. What rejection does the uniqueness of a self require according to Hegel?

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

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