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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 the conscience create according to Hegel?

2. How does Hegel describe the Absolute?

3. According to Hegel's philosophy, what will lead people to the goal of Absolute self-conscious Spirit?

4. In Hegel's opinion, what does the universal law of heart lead to?

5. What is the ultimate result of action according to Hegel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the contradiction that governs the self's relationship with morality, in Hegel's view?

2. Define the German word Geist.

3. What is enlightenment and what are its consequences according to Hegel?

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

5. What is the two-fold function of Spirit, in Hegel's philosophy?

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

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

8. In what way does Hegel say that humans can continue to progress beyond Absolute Knowledge?

9. What does Hegel mean by saying that every action is divisive?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Hegel revise the philosophies of the philosophers who influenced him? How did his philosophy turn the developing Romantic movement? What effect did Hegel's philosophy have on the philosophy that came before it? Was it an evolution, a repudiation, an organic growth?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze Hegel's ideas concerning the characteristic tensions and conflicts as the individual is transformed from organic nature to Absolute Knowledge, and discuss the process by which the Spirit develops.

Essay Topic 3

Is Hegel writing for everyman or for specific types of people who are interested in a certain kind of self-discovery? Is he defining an archetypal experience of the soul's maturation, or is he talking about the experience divines and mystics undergo as they search for and find enlightenment?

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