View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of force in Hegel's philosophy?

2. What does Hegel relate desire to?

3. How does Hegel describe Necessity?

4. What is the purpose of an animal's mentality in Hegel's opinion?

5. How does Hegel describe the set of things that work against the "law of the heart"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between a person and an animal in Hegel's philosophy?

2. How does Hegel define hedonism?

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

4. What are the stages by which the conscious mind develops, in Hegel's terminology?

5. How does Hegel define determinateness?

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

7. What is the relationship of freedom and fate in Hegel's terminology?

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

9. How does Hegel define "irritability"?

10. According to Hegel's account, what is the mind's relationship with itself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the midst of his discussion of spirit and individuality, Hegel detours into a chapter on property and no property, and even describes communism as an ideal social system for distributing goods. What is the role of this social planning impulse throughout the rest of Phenomenology of Spirit? Is Hegel urging socio-political changes, or is he talking abstractly, or metaphorically, of the soul? How political is Hegel?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the things the self loses along the path of its development toward Absolute Spirit according to Hegel's philosophy. How are the individual's losses compensated with new gains, powers, abilities? Is the self conserved throughout the process, or does it end with more or less than it started with? Is it even still the same thing?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 928 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample