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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dissemblance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hegel classify desires?
(a) The root of self-awareness.
(b) Animal consciousness.
(c) Demonic consciousness.
(d) Material existence.

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

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

4. What was Hegel's dread of death influenced by?
(a) Hegel's accident on horseback.
(b) Hegel's father's death.
(c) An ongoing war.
(d) Hegel's near-death experience.

5. What does Hegel say is the goal of individual self-consciousness?
(a) To merge the law of the heart with necessity.
(b) To transcend whatever opposes the law of the heart.
(c) To subjugate the law of the heart to social law.
(d) To engage the law of the heart in dialogue with fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is freedom at the level of absolute freedom and terror caused by according to Hegel?

2. What does Hegel mean by "concrete"?

3. What does Hegel say the meaning of life is for every individual?

4. What human trait does Hegel say is not found in animals?

5. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the self caught between in its early stage?

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