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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 does "the concrete" have in Hegel's account?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Unique life.
(c) Form and universals.
(d) Scientific self-certainty.

2. According to Hegel, why is even a killer dissatisfied with the self-certainty that comes from killing another person?
(a) Because even the final act of murder does not put one in touch with unconscious feelings.
(b) Because some acts cannot be brought into the light.
(c) Because the act of murder is only a beginning and has to be repeated ritually.
(d) Because the dead are never removed from the consciousness of the killer.

3. According to Hegel, how does the animal fulfill its purpose?
(a) By attaining consciousness.
(b) By attaining reflection.
(c) By reconciling its self with reality.
(d) By living.

4. What does Hegel explain in the introduction of The Phenomenology of Mind?
(a) Where the inspiration for the work came from.
(b) Why the work is necessary to his times and to humanity.
(c) Why he was the only one who could have written this work.
(d) Where the work fits in the history of philosophy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?

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

3. What are the elements in Hegel's account?

4. According to Hegel, what are the mind's two relations to reality?

5. According to the translator's note, Hegel's study of pleasure and necessity is really a study of what?

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