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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 Hegel relate conscious activity to?

2. According to Hegel, how can absolute freedom be expressed?

3. What does the "artificer" represent in Hegel's philosophy?

4. What does Hegel contrast darkness to?

5. How does Hegel describe the community he found himself living in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is God's relationship with the work of art, in Hegel's view?

2. According to Hegel, what does the law of heart do to an individual who follows it?

3. What is the contradiction that governs the self's relationship with morality, in Hegel's view?

4. What, in Hegel's view, is the purpose of life?

5. According to Hegel, how is duty related to action?

6. According to Hegel, what effect does the awareness of death have on the self?

7. According to Hegel, how does the individual experience Absolute Knowledge?

8. According to Hegel's philosophy, what is the individual's relationship with society, in terms of the development of ethical behavior?

9. Define the German word Geist.

10. According to Hegel's philosophy, what is the progression the self follows?

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 the purpose of life in Hegel's philosophy? How does that term apply differently to different entities? What are the different stages of purpose?

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?

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