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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 say has to be his starting point for consciousness?

2. What dictum does Hegel endorse?

3. At the level of freedom and terror, what does self-consciousness have according to Hegel?

4. According to Hegel's philosophy, what will lead people to the goal of Absolute self-conscious Spirit?

5. What does the belief in the Underworld transform into according to Hegel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the statue represent in Hegel's view?

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

4. How does Hegel account for self-conflict as an opportunity for the self?

5. What does Hegel mean by saying that every action is divisive?

6. How does Hegel define duty?

7. What does Hegel say about the distribution of wealth?

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

9. How does Hegel define the artificer?

10. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Hegel revise the philosophies of the philosophers who influenced him? How did his philosophy turn the developing Romantic movement? What effect did Hegel's philosophy have on the philosophy that came before it? Was it an evolution, a repudiation, an organic growth?

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

Write an evaluative review of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Where is the book most itself? Where is it unresolved, or riven with internal tensions? How are those tensions contained? What are the forces that are trying to pull Phenomenology of Spirit apart?

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