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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 is the highest moral function of an individual?

2. According to Hegel, what has Absolute Spirit developed into in the "beautiful soul"?

3. What is the stage after the "beautiful soul" in Hegel's view?

4. Under what condition does Spirit mean Mind in Hegel's philosophy?

5. What happens when Spirit turns back on itself according to Hegel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the two-fold function of Spirit, in Hegel's philosophy?

2. How is the Divine Being revealed, in Hegel's philosophy?

3. What is the effect of Insight on self-consciousness, in Hegel's philosophy?

4. How does Hegel define the artificer?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Hegel define moments?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Hegel's philosophy change in modern times with modern technology? With an argument based in Hegel's text, say whether the Phenomenology of Spirit needs to be updated because of modernity's developments, either in technology or politics or warfare or the arts or culture.

Essay Topic 2

What are the laws that govern the self in its relation with itself and in its relation with external reality? Discuss the laws that apply to the self in its development. Is development itself one of the world's laws according to Hegel's philosophy?

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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