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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. According to Hegel, what do people ultimately find as a result of Insight?

2. What work marks the progress through Hegel's text and meanings?

3. How does Hegel describe the Absolute?

4. How does Hegel define Enlightenment?

5. According to Hegel, what is there in common between tool making and the work of art?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Hegel, how does the individual experience Absolute Knowledge?

2. How does Hegel define Absolute Freedom?

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

4. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the difference between conscience and the moral self-consciousness?

5. How does Hegel define moments?

6. What is the difference between "property" and "no property" in Hegel's view?

7. In what way or under what conditions can self-consciousness itself be moral in Hegel's view?

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

9. According to Hegel, what does the law of heart do to an individual who follows it?

10. According to Hegel's philosophy, what is the individual's relationship with society, in terms of the development of ethical behavior?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What further development stages can the soul undertake to experience, after it becomes an Absolute Spirit, in Hegel's terms? Put another way, what kinds of experience does Hegel leave out of "Phenomenology of Spirit"? Are there mystical or otherwise devout experiences he does not include?

Essay Topic 3

What are the laws that govern the self in its relation with itself and in its relation with external reality? Discuss the laws that apply to the self in its development. Is development itself one of the world's laws according to Hegel's philosophy?

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