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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 does consciousness rest on in Hegel's account?

2. What is meant by Hegel's term "practical reason"?

3. According to Hegel, pon what does the reality of a notion depend?

4. What did cranioscopy examine?

5. What is the purpose of Hegel's treatise?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Hegel define Reason?

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

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

9. How does Hegel define hedonism?

10. How does Hegel define the relationship between the lord and the servant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to Hegel, in what ways are internal reality and external reality correlated? Analyze the distinction between internal and external reality and describe the correlations that unify them at each stage of Spirit's development? Are they ever completely unified? Are they ever completely separate?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe and analyze Hegel's ideas concerning the characteristic tensions and conflicts as the individual is transformed from organic nature to Absolute Knowledge, and discuss the process by which the Spirit develops.

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