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

2. According to Hegel, why is even a killer dissatisfied with the self-certainty that comes from killing another person?

3. What do both parts of a lordship/bondage relationship seek in Hegel's philosophy?

4. Where does Hegel locate the beginning of scientific knowledge?

5. What is the purpose of an animal's mentality in Hegel's opinion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hegel define determinateness?

2. What is the difference between "theoretical reason" and "practical reason" in Hegel's terminology?

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

4. How does Hegel define force?

5. How can the individual's truths be realized, according to Hegel's philosophy?

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

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

8. How does Hegel define the relationship between the lord and the servant?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hegel invokes the pre-Christian Greek cults as examples of the religious life he imagines. Is his religion pagan or "civilized"? Natural or urban? What values is he returning to by invoking the Greeks? What Christian practices is he discarding?

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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