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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spirit in Self-Estrangement- The Discipline of Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main obstacle to the individual submitting to the good and the true in Hegel's view?
(a) Necessity.
(b) The universalization of the mind.
(c) The conceit of individuality.
(d) The illusion of free will.

2. According to Hegel, what is "honest activity" related to?
(a) Emptiness.
(b) Seeming.
(c) The origins of action.
(d) The effects of action.

3. What dictum does Hegel endorse?
(a) Do what you are afraid to do.
(b) Love thy neighbor as thyself.
(c) Know thyself.
(d) Speak only when necessary.

4. What are the elements in Hegel's account?
(a) The fundamental emotions, anger, desire, pity.
(b) The conditions of archaic existence.
(c) Earth, fire, water, air.
(d) The sun, moon and stars.

5. According to Hegel, how does the truth of concrete individuals manifest?
(a) It manifests in every decision.
(b) It manifests in action.
(c) It manifests in self-conflict.
(d) If manifests without any doubt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which claim does Hegel make about the mind?

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

4. What emerges after self-estrangement fades according to Hegel?

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

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