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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. What do both parts of a lordship/bondage relationship seek in Hegel's philosophy?

2. What school of thought influenced Hegel's writing?

3. What does a man gain by doing good work in Hegel's view?

4. How does the double consciousness unify according to Hegel's philosophy?

5. How does Hegel describe the process of the World running its Course?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hegel define Reason?

2. What does Hegel mean by saying that consciousness is relational?

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

4. What was the relationship between philosophy and science in Hegel's time?

5. What distinction does the translator Baille draw between "the fact of the matter" and "a matter of fact"?

6. What are the two meanings Hegel gives to the term "independent self-consciousness"?

7. Where do laws come from in Hegel's philosophy?

8. What is the "conceit of individuality" and what force counters it according to Hegel's philosophy?

9. How can the individual's truths be realized, according to Hegel's philosophy?

10. How does Hegel define "irritability"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hegel's philosophy is predicated on the concept of the Spirit's progress from raw material to manifest spirit. Does "Phenomenology of Spirit" contain other views of human existence in which things are eternal and do not progress but remain the same forever? Does Hegel repress the concept of a culture that does not change over time but preserves the same arts and cultural practices from one generation to the next?

Essay Topic 2

What is Hegel's relationship with art? What is his ideal artistic form, or is life itself an artistic form for the Absolute Spirit?

Essay Topic 3

How does Hegel's philosophy change in modern times with modern technology? With an argument based in Hegel's text, say whether the Phenomenology of Spirit needs to be updated because of modernity's developments, either in technology or politics or warfare or the arts or culture.

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