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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. To what does the term "sensibility" apply according to Hegel?

2. What are the elements in Hegel's account?

3. According tio Hegel where do psychological laws originate?

4. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the first stage in the development of the conscious mind?

5. What qualities does Hegel describe as being necessary for organic entities?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does a consciousness require in order to use observation at the level of Reason according to Hegel's philosophy?

3. What distinction does the translator Baille draw between "the fact of the matter" and "a matter of fact"?

4. What are the stages by which the conscious mind develops, in Hegel's terminology?

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

6. Why does Hegel describe consciousness as unhappy?

7. How does Hegel define determinateness?

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

9. Where do laws come from in Hegel's philosophy?

10. What is it that forms the basis of individuality and character, in Hegel's terminology?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the midst of his discussion of spirit and individuality, Hegel detours into a chapter on property and no property, and even describes communism as an ideal social system for distributing goods. What is the role of this social planning impulse throughout the rest of Phenomenology of Spirit? Is Hegel urging socio-political changes, or is he talking abstractly, or metaphorically, of the soul? How political is Hegel?

Essay Topic 2

According to Hegel, in what ways are internal reality and external reality correlated? Analyze the distinction between internal and external reality and describe the correlations that unify them at each stage of Spirit's development? Are they ever completely unified? Are they ever completely separate?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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