The Phenomenology of Mind Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Observation of the Relation of Self-Consciousness to Its Immediate Actuality- Physiognomy and Phrenology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hegel describe observation?
(a) As a reliable process.
(b) A contingent on subjectivity.
(c) As a mobile army of metaphors.
(d) As necessarily flawed.

2. What does "the concrete" have in Hegel's account?
(a) Form and universals.
(b) Scientific self-certainty.
(c) Unique life.
(d) Consciousness.

3. What else does Reason require in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) An acceptable myth describing the nature of self and world.
(b) Doubt as to the nature of the self and the world.
(c) A degree of monomania.
(d) The self-evidence of the self and the world.

4. What is it that expresses both the individual and inner reality, in Hegel's view?
(a) Self-reflection.
(b) Action.
(c) Conflict within the self.
(d) Physical form.

5. What is the result of force in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) A new understanding.
(b) A new law.
(c) A reassessment of relationships.
(d) A new authority.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel classify desires?

2. What is a pre-condition to Reason according to Hegel?

3. How do objects achieve identity according to Hegel?

4. What were both phrenology and cranioscopy looking for?

5. According to Hegel, self-consciousness is aware of itself relative to what?

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