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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 role does Hegel say society plays in how man determines his direction?

2. What is the main obstacle to the individual submitting to the good and the true in Hegel's view?

3. What are the elements in Hegel's account?

4. According to Hegel, what constitutes the Course of the World?

5. What is the relationship between phrenology, physiognomy, and cranioscopy according to Hegel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Hegel define force?

8. How does Hegel define determinateness?

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

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

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 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

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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