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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Virtue & the Course of the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Hegel, what constitutes the Course of the World?
(a) The inner events that motivate external reality.
(b) The heart and its desire and development.
(c) The external reality that informs subjectivity.
(d) The events of the world as external reality.

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

4. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the first stage in the development of the conscious mind?
(a) The sense of the uniqueness of the heart falls away.
(b) Individual heart is recognized by self-consciousness.
(c) Universal heart is discovered through individual heart.
(d) Forces that contradict the individual's feelings occur.

5. What becomes clear as the future becomes the past, according to Hegel?
(a) How free will is an illusion.
(b) How free men are in their decisions.
(c) How certain events were inevitable.
(d) How fate operates in every detail.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hegel writes that the divisive power of the mind allows the self to define itself relative to what?

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

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

5. Which modern culture is the most representative descendant of Hegelian thinking?

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