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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. What does Hegel say is the goal of individual self-consciousness?
(a) To merge the law of the heart with necessity.
(b) To engage the law of the heart in dialogue with fate.
(c) To subjugate the law of the heart to social law.
(d) To transcend whatever opposes the law of the heart.

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

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

4. How do objects achieve identity according to Hegel?
(a) Through determinateness.
(b) Through reflection.
(c) Through assertion.
(d) Through self awareness.

5. What qualities does Hegel describe as being necessary for organic entities?
(a) Capable of perception.
(b) Self-conscious.
(c) Reflective.
(d) Self-preserving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were both phrenology and cranioscopy looking for?

2. What does consciousness rest on in Hegel's account?

3. According to Hegel, why is the self unhappy?

4. What development does Hegel explain in "Perception, Thing and Deceptiveness"?

5. What does Hegel say accompanies the process of Virtue bringing good into the world?

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