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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Virtue & the Course of the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Hegel, what does an individual need to do to live wisely and virtuously?
(a) Develop new ways of doing things.
(b) Live their lives.
(c) Conform to their culture.
(d) Express themselves in acts and words.

3. 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 past.
(d) Rejection of the eternal.

4. What becomes clear as the future becomes the past, according to Hegel?
(a) How fate operates in every detail.
(b) How certain events were inevitable.
(c) How free will is an illusion.
(d) How free men are in their decisions.

5. According to Hegel, for what purpose are Unity, Difference and Relation all necessary?
(a) For the reconciliation of man with himself.
(b) For the development of self-reflection.
(c) For the development of consciousness.
(d) For the evolution of man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hegel describe the set of things that work against the "law of the heart"?

2. What does Hegel say is ultimately impossible for a human?

3. To what does the term "sensibility" apply according to Hegel?

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

5. What field does Hegel defend in the Preface and Introduction?

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