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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hegel, why is the self unhappy?

2. What does Hegel say the meaning of life is for every individual?

3. What relation binds the object and the perceiver in Hegel's philosophy?

4. How does Hegel define a law?

5. How does Hegel describe force?

Short Essay Questions

1. What qualities does an "organic entity" have according to Hegel?

2. How does Hegel define "irritability"?

3. What does a consciousness require in order to use observation at the level of Reason according to Hegel's philosophy?

4. In Hegel's philosophy, what relationship do the sciences--particularly phrenology and craniology--have to do with truth?

5. How are notions and reality related according to Hegel's philosophy?

6. How does Hegel define determinateness?

7. How does Hegel define hedonism?

8. How does Hegel define "sensibility"?

9. How does Hegel define Reason?

10. What are the components of a "concrete individuality" in Hegel's terminology?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What further development stages can the soul undertake to experience, after it becomes an Absolute Spirit, in Hegel's terms? Put another way, what kinds of experience does Hegel leave out of "Phenomenology of Spirit"? Are there mystical or otherwise devout experiences he does not include?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Where is the book most itself? Where is it unresolved, or riven with internal tensions? How are those tensions contained? What are the forces that are trying to pull Phenomenology of Spirit apart?

Essay Topic 3

What are the laws that govern the self in its relation with itself and in its relation with external reality? Discuss the laws that apply to the self in its development. Is development itself one of the world's laws according to Hegel's philosophy?

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