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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 development does Hegel explain in "Perception, Thing and Deceptiveness"?
(a) The development of historical consciousness.
(b) The development of the scientific consciousness.
(c) The development of religious consciousness.
(d) The development of the natural consciousness.

2. According to the translator's note, Hegel's study of pleasure and necessity is really a study of what?
(a) Hedonism.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Sentimentalism.

3. According to Hegel's philosophy, independent self-consciousness is both an aspect of concrete individuality and what else?
(a) Thinghood insofar as the self is an object of knowledge.
(b) Scientific consciousness.
(c) Self-reflection as the process of expressing the self.
(d) Spirituality.

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

5. How does Hegel define a law?
(a) The relation of any element to the process of becoming an organic being.
(b) Anything that binds the freedom of an organic entity.
(c) Anything capable of being observed as a perception of another.
(d) Anything that appears with profound consistency.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hegel include in the limitations of laws?

2. How do objects achieve identity according to Hegel?

3. How does Hegel describe observation?

4. What is it that indicates something about a person's unique traits, in Hegel's account?

5. What school of thought influenced Hegel's writing?

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