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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 the highest moral function of an individual?

2. What is Hegel searching for in his discussion of morality?

3. According to Hegel, how can absolute freedom be expressed?

4. What is the center of moral life according to Hegel?

5. What does conceit cause according to Hegel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Hegel, how is duty related to action?

3. How does Hegel define Absolute Freedom?

4. How does Hegel account for self-conflict as an opportunity for the self?

5. What is God's relationship with the work of art, in Hegel's view?

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

7. According to Hegel, what effect does the awareness of death have on the self?

8. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

9. Define the German word Geist.

10. What does Hegel say about the distribution of wealth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hegel's philosophy is predicated on the concept of the Spirit's progress from raw material to manifest spirit. Does "Phenomenology of Spirit" contain other views of human existence in which things are eternal and do not progress but remain the same forever? Does Hegel repress the concept of a culture that does not change over time but preserves the same arts and cultural practices from one generation to the next?

Essay Topic 2

What is the purpose of life in Hegel's philosophy? How does that term apply differently to different entities? What are the different stages of purpose?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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