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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hegel approach morality?
(a) As a product of Spirit's development.
(b) As a reason for living.
(c) As a form of consciousness in itself.
(d) As a consequence of self-consiousness.

2. What does the "artificer" represent in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) The artificer represents the manifestation of Absolute Mind.
(b) The artificer represents constant artistic self-reinvention.
(c) The artificer represents thought combined with action upon reality.
(d) The artificer represents the light of the Absolute shining into the consciousness.

3. How does Hegel describe the fulfillment of duty?
(a) Hegel says that the fulfillment of duty is Spirit manifested.
(b) Hegel says that the fulfillment of duty is the origin of individuality
(c) Hegel says that the fulfillment of duty is the consequence of spiritual life.
(d) Hegel says that the fulfillment of duty is morality enacted.

4. What does the belief in the Underworld transform into according to Hegel?
(a) A stimulus for observing life closely.
(b) Scientific knowledge.
(c) A belief in Heaven.
(d) A fear of death.

5. What does Hegel call a kind of diffusing selfless Self?
(a) The absolute aspect of man.
(b) The world of plants and animals.
(c) The world of inanimate things.
(d) The natural world as a whole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hegel say is the highest moral function of an individual?

2. What is the father of science in Hegel's opinion?

3. At the level of freedom and terror, what does self-consciousness have according to Hegel?

4. What does Hegel relate conscious activity to?

5. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the relation between property and no property?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the statue represent in Hegel's view?

2. How do light and dark function in natural religion, in Hegel's view?

3. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

4. Define the German word Geist.

5. How does Hegel define duty?

6. According to Hegel, how does the individual experience Absolute Knowledge?

7. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the difference between conscience and the moral self-consciousness?

8. What is the effect of Insight on self-consciousness, in Hegel's philosophy?

9. What is the contradiction that governs the self's relationship with morality, in Hegel's view?

10. How is the Divine Being revealed, in Hegel's philosophy?

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