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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Revealed Religion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that makes philosophy necessary and valuable according to Hegel?
(a) The possibility of consciousness.
(b) The nature of life itself.
(c) The requirement to do good work.
(d) The evolution of scientific knowledge.

2. What relation binds the object and the perceiver in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Reason.
(c) History.
(d) The World-Spirit.

3. What do both parts of a lordship/bondage relationship seek in Hegel's philosophy?
(a) Self-certainty of consciousness.
(b) The elimination of the other.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Equilibrium.

4. What is the contradiction at the heart of absolute reality according to Hegel?
(a) The individual intuits the existence of life beyond himself but can never know anything except through direct perception.
(b) Literacy and printing presses have made experiences transferable to people have not had the experience themselves.
(c) The individual learns about existence from individual existence and also from external reality.
(d) It is real but it is also a myth that is propagated in philosophy.

5. What does Hegel say the meaning of life is for every individual?
(a) "To be myself."
(b) "To know the self."
(c) "To fulfill the self."
(d) "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hegel mean by "concrete"?

2. What causes the formation of laws according to Hegel?

3. According to Hegel, what is the relationship between spiritual life and the day-to-day world?

4. How does Hegel describe notions?

5. According to Hegel, what is the element of self-consciousness closest to the Absolute?

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