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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Hegel say that the relationship with the bondsman is not fulfilling for the lord?
(a) Because of the nostalgia for pre-lapsarian consciousness.
(b) Because of a self-contained counter effect.
(c) Because of the imp of the perverse.
(d) Because of the drive to power.

3. What are the elements in Hegel's account?
(a) The sun, moon and stars.
(b) Earth, fire, water, air.
(c) The conditions of archaic existence.
(d) The fundamental emotions, anger, desire, pity.

4. What are noumena according to Hegel?
(a) Events.
(b) Objects.
(c) Perceptions.
(d) Laws.

5. What does Hegel include in the limitations of laws?
(a) Limitations of mind.
(b) Limitations of self-consciousness.
(c) Limitations of observation.
(d) Limitations of reflection.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way could Hegel see a person, a table and a fruit as all identical?

2. Hegel writes that the divisive power of the mind allows the self to define itself relative to what?

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

4. Which modern culture is the most representative descendant of Hegelian thinking?

5. What does Hegel relate desire to?

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