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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 development does Hegel explain in "Perception, Thing and Deceptiveness"?
(a) The development of religious consciousness.
(b) The development of the natural consciousness.
(c) The development of historical consciousness.
(d) The development of the scientific consciousness.

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

3. What relation binds the object and the perceiver in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Reason.
(b) History.
(c) The World-Spirit.
(d) Understanding.

4. What do both parts of a lordship/bondage relationship seek in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) The elimination of the other.
(b) Equilibrium.
(c) Self-certainty of consciousness.
(d) Dominance.

5. Where does Hegel locate the beginning of scientific knowledge?
(a) In self-knowledge.
(b) In spirituality.
(c) In History.
(d) In God.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel describe reason?

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

3. What does Hegel explain in the introduction of The Phenomenology of Mind?

4. How does Hegel describe force?

5. Which claim does Hegel make about the mind?

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