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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel describe the set of things that work against the "law of the heart"?

2. What does a man gain by doing good work in Hegel's view?

3. What else must an individual conquer in order to manifest individuality according to Hegel?

4. According to Hegel, what are the mind's two relations to reality?

5. What is the purpose of Hegel's treatise?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the components of a "concrete individuality" in Hegel's terminology?

2. How does Hegel define force?

3. What is the difference between a person and an animal in Hegel's philosophy?

4. What is the relationship of freedom and fate in Hegel's terminology?

5. How does Hegel define "sensibility"?

6. What is the "conceit of individuality" and what force counters it according to Hegel's philosophy?

7. How does Hegel characterize the Course of the World, and what is the result of overcoming it?

8. What was the relationship between philosophy and science in Hegel's time?

9. What qualities does an "organic entity" have according to Hegel?

10. How are notions and reality related according to Hegel's philosophy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Where is the book most itself? Where is it unresolved, or riven with internal tensions? How are those tensions contained? What are the forces that are trying to pull Phenomenology of Spirit apart?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze Hegel's ideas concerning the characteristic tensions and conflicts as the individual is transformed from organic nature to Absolute Knowledge, and discuss the process by which the Spirit develops.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the things the self loses along the path of its development toward Absolute Spirit according to Hegel's philosophy. How are the individual's losses compensated with new gains, powers, abilities? Is the self conserved throughout the process, or does it end with more or less than it started with? Is it even still the same thing?

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