The Phenomenology of Mind Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Observation as a Process of Reason: Observation of Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?
(a) The reality that perception is subjective and relative.
(b) The notion that things continue to exist regardless of our presence or absence.
(c) The possibility that there can be more than one thing at a time.
(d) The possibility of there being something more than the thing itself.

2. How do objects achieve identity according to Hegel?
(a) Through self awareness.
(b) Through determinateness.
(c) Through reflection.
(d) Through assertion.

3. How does Hegel describe the self?
(a) As the sum of material sensations.
(b) As both free and abstract.
(c) As physical and divine.
(d) As bounded but sublime.

4. What does Hegel mean by "concrete"?
(a) Filled with potential.
(b) Experiential and actual.
(c) Devoid of consciousness.
(d) Filled with divine actuality.

5. What is a pre-condition to Reason according to Hegel?
(a) Double consciousness.
(b) Transcendent self-awareness.
(c) Stable sources of food and shelter.
(d) Stable self-certainty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which claim does Hegel make about the mind?

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

3. What relation binds the object and the perceiver in Hegel's philosophy?

4. What is the purpose of Hegel's treatise?

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

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