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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 does Hegel say we have to see in order to understand the truth about a thing?
(a) The notion that things continue to exist regardless of our presence or absence.
(b) The possibility that there can be more than one thing at a time.
(c) The reality that perception is subjective and relative.
(d) The possibility of there being something more than the thing itself.

2. How does Virtue manifest Reason in a society according to Hegel?
(a) Through public and private acts.
(b) Through works of art.
(c) Through public rituals.
(d) Through work.

3. According to Hegel, why is the self unhappy?
(a) Because it will always be torn between the present contingency and infant perfection.
(b) Because it can imagine fulfillment but never know it completely.
(c) Because it can never contact its unconscious sources.
(d) Because it can imagine eternity, but has to die.

4. According to Hegel, what are the mind's two relations to reality?
(a) Thinking and biology.
(b) Reason and physiology.
(c) Spirit and heart.
(d) History and concepts.

5. How does Hegel define ownership?
(a) As being of objects only, never people.
(b) Contractual relationship with mutual obligations.
(c) Total knowledge and possession.
(d) Close relationship with duties of protection.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hegel say is the goal of individual self-consciousness?

3. Which philosopher influenced Hegel's use of categories?

4. What role does Hegel say society plays in how man determines his direction?

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

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