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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the center of moral life according to Hegel?
(a) Love.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Work.
(d) Duty.
2. According the Hegel's philosophy, what is the one state where complete annihilation of difference occurs?
(a) Transcendentalism.
(b) Self-awareness.
(c) Loss.
(d) Death.
3. Why does Hegel say that "property" is superior to "no property"?
(a) Because property can function independently of 'no property' but 'no property' cannot function independently.
(b) Because property makes people think long term.
(c) Because no property is an absence that depends on the concept of property.
(d) Because property makes people think short term.
4. Who else reached similar conclusions to Hegel's, about the nature of Absolute self-consciousness?
(a) Pragmatist philosophers.
(b) Renaissance philosophers.
(c) Enlightenment philosophers.
(d) Eastern philosophers.
5. What work marks the progress through Hegel's text and meanings?
(a) Meditation and transcendence.
(b) Practice and repetition.
(c) Physical training.
(d) Study and memorization.
6. What is Hegel's feeling about communism?
(a) He dreads the inevitable bureaucratization.
(b) He likes the prospect of everyone being provided for.
(c) He foresees problems with greed and workers' motivations.
(d) He warns against the prospect of militant radicals running the economy.
7. The spirit that creates artwork also creates what else according to Hegel?
(a) Social change.
(b) The soul of a free country.
(c) Industrial technology.
(d) Scientific instruments.
8. In Hegel's philosophy, in what way does the Spirit serve a two-fold function?
(a) It is acts at the same time that it reposes.
(b) It understands at the same time that it is beyond understanding, even to itself.
(c) It observes itself as object at the same time that it is subject.
(d) It contains both the universal and eternal and the particular and contingent.
9. In Hegel's philosophy, what is the self caught between in its early stage?
(a) Nature and ethical knowledge.
(b) Family and Civil Society.
(c) The present and history.
(d) Individual and universal mind.
10. According to Hegel, how can absolute freedom be expressed?
(a) It cannot be expressed.
(b) Through negativity.
(c) Through an activity that proceeds from the self.
(d) Through self-fulling choices.
11. How does Hegel look at ethics in the "Moral View of the World" chapter?
(a) Hegel looks at ethics with respect to spirit.
(b) Hegel looks at ethics with respect to individuality.
(c) Hegel looks at ethics with respect to religion.
(d) Hegel looks at ethics with respect to culture.
12. What in Hegel's view does individuality gain when it finds itself after being lost to the public order?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Historical conciousness.
(c) Eternal life.
(d) Universality.
13. When does the complete spiritual being begin to function in the world according to Hegel?
(a) When the soul begins its work within the self.
(b) When the philosopher discovers the Absolute.
(c) When the soul completes its work in society.
(d) When the Absolute is established as a modus operandi.
14. What does Hegel contrast darkness to?
(a) Vision.
(b) Reason.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Creativity.
15. What does Hegel describe as the theatre for ethical choices?
(a) The Mind.
(b) Daily life.
(c) The universe.
(d) History.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Hegel describe the community he found himself living in?
2. What assumption does Hegel make about God?
3. What is Hegel searching for in his discussion of morality?
4. What does the conscience create according to Hegel?
5. According to Hegel, what is science's relationship with philosophy?
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