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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spirit in the Condition of Being Certain of Itself: Morality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hegel include in the limitations of laws?
(a) Limitations of reflection.
(b) Limitations of self-consciousness.
(c) Limitations of observation.
(d) Limitations of mind.

2. How does Hegel approach morality?
(a) As a product of Spirit's development.
(b) As a consequence of self-consiousness.
(c) As a reason for living.
(d) As a form of consciousness in itself.

3. What is the contradiction at the heart of absolute reality according to Hegel?
(a) It is real but it is also a myth that is propagated in philosophy.
(b) The individual learns about existence from individual existence and also from external reality.
(c) The individual intuits the existence of life beyond himself but can never know anything except through direct perception.
(d) Literacy and printing presses have made experiences transferable to people have not had the experience themselves.

4. According tio Hegel where do psychological laws originate?
(a) In the concrete reality of the self.
(b) In the failure of the power of observation.
(c) In the fulfillment of self-consciousness.
(d) In self-reflection.

5. According to Hegel, what are the mind's two relations to reality?
(a) Thinking and biology.
(b) Reason and physiology.
(c) History and concepts.
(d) Spirit and heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hegel, what is "honest activity" related to?

2. What does a man gain by doing good work in Hegel's view?

3. What serves as a model for duties for individuals in Hegel's opinion?

4. In Hegel's view, how are laws of thought connected?

5. According to the translator, what does "the fact of the matter" refer to?

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