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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way could Hegel see a person, a table and a fruit as all identical?
(a) They are all 'mind'.
(b) They are all 'things'.
(c) They are all raw material for consciousness.
(d) They are all 'objects of perception' to another person.

2. What is meant by Hegel's term "practical reason"?
(a) Ideas that result in happiness.
(b) Instinctual reactions.
(c) Universal truths.
(d) Rational actions.

3. According to Hegel, pon what does the reality of a notion depend?
(a) Subjectivity.
(b) External reality.
(c) Reconciliation of self and reality.
(d) Reflective consciousness.

4. What are the elements in Hegel's account?
(a) The fundamental emotions, anger, desire, pity.
(b) Earth, fire, water, air.
(c) The conditions of archaic existence.
(d) The sun, moon and stars.

5. What is it that indicates something about a person's unique traits, in Hegel's account?
(a) The person's original body.
(b) A person's heridity.
(c) What a person does to their body.
(d) The marks on a body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hegel say is ultimately impossible for a human?

2. What is the relationship between phrenology, physiognomy, and cranioscopy according to Hegel?

3. How else do the inner and outer relate, besides being opposites according to Hegel?

4. What are noumena according to Hegel?

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

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