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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. Why does Hegel say that "property" is superior to "no property"?

2. What is the "beautiful soul's" relationship with morality according to Hegel?

3. The spirit that creates artwork also creates what else according to Hegel?

4. How does morality operate according to Hegel?

5. How is belief transformed into enlightenment according to Hegel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hegel define duty?

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

3. What is the difference between "property" and "no property" in Hegel's view?

4. How does Hegel define the artificer?

5. How does Hegel define moments?

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

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

8. In what way or under what conditions can self-consciousness itself be moral in Hegel's view?

9. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

10. How does Hegel define Absolute Freedom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hegel invokes the pre-Christian Greek cults as examples of the religious life he imagines. Is his religion pagan or "civilized"? Natural or urban? What values is he returning to by invoking the Greeks? What Christian practices is he discarding?

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

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?

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