The Phenomenology of Mind Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Observation of Nature as an Organic Whole.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Hegel, why is the self unhappy?
(a) Because it can imagine eternity, but has to die.
(b) Because it can imagine fulfillment but never know it completely.
(c) Because it will always be torn between the present contingency and infant perfection.
(d) Because it can never contact its unconscious sources.

3. What does Hegel say is ultimately impossible for a human?
(a) Transcendence.
(b) Self-awareness.
(c) Fulfillment.
(d) Purposelessness.

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

5. What does Hegel say the meaning of life is for every individual?
(a) "To know the self."
(b) "To fulfill the self."
(c) "To be myself."
(d) "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hegel say that the relationship with the bondsman is not fulfilling for the lord?

2. How does Hegel describe notions?

3. To what does the term "sensibility" apply according to Hegel?

4. What is the result of force in Hegel's philosophy?

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

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