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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spirit in Self-Estrangement- The Discipline of Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hegel define a law?
(a) Anything that binds the freedom of an organic entity.
(b) Anything that appears with profound consistency.
(c) The relation of any element to the process of becoming an organic being.
(d) Anything capable of being observed as a perception of another.

2. According to Hegel, self-consciousness is aware of itself relative to what?
(a) Infant fulfillment and abstract promises.
(b) Conscience and desire.
(c) Objects and universals.
(d) Desire and loss.

3. What does consciousness rest on in Hegel's account?
(a) Perception.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Reason.

4. How does Hegel define "irritability"?
(a) As a the consequence of reconciliation.
(b) As an organism's ability to act out.
(c) As a failure of reflection.
(d) As a constant in conscious life.

5. How does Hegel describe reason?
(a) As a stage of mind.
(b) As uniquely human.
(c) As an evolutionary benefit.
(d) As evidence of the divine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Observation functions with regard to what in Hegel's philosophy?

2. What else does Reason require in Hegel's philosophy?

3. What development does Hegel explain in "Perception, Thing and Deceptiveness"?

4. How does Hegel describe Necessity?

5. What is the relationship between phrenology, physiognomy, and cranioscopy according to Hegel?

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