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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 does Hegel say is impossible in animal life?

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

3. Which philosopher influenced Hegel's use of categories?

4. What is the reason of observation conjoined with, according to the translator? 

5. What role does Hegel say society plays in how man determines his direction?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Hegel define "irritability"?

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

7. What does "concrete" mean in Hegel's terminology?

8. How does Hegel define force?

9. How does Hegel define "sensibility"?

10. How does Hegel define determinateness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What is Hegel's relationship with art? What is his ideal artistic form, or is life itself an artistic form for the Absolute Spirit?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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