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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 school of thought influenced Hegel's writing?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Enlightenment.

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

3. What is it that expresses both the individual and inner reality, in Hegel's view?
(a) Action.
(b) Conflict within the self.
(c) Physical form.
(d) Self-reflection.

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

5. What rejection does the uniqueness of a self require according to Hegel?
(a) Rejection of the abstract.
(b) Rejection of the other.
(c) Rejection of the eternal.
(d) Rejection of the past.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Hegel's philosophy, independent self-consciousness is both an aspect of concrete individuality and what else?

3. What causes the formation of laws according to Hegel?

4. How does Hegel describe force?

5. According to Hegel, what does an individual need to do to live wisely and virtuously?

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