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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 is it about art that reveals religion in Hegel's view?

2. What is freedom at the level of absolute freedom and terror caused by according to Hegel?

3. How does Hegel define Enlightenment?

4. What is the father of science in Hegel's opinion?

5. What does Hegel call a kind of diffusing selfless Self?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hegel describe the Absolute Spirit?

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

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

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

6. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

7. How do light and dark function in natural religion, in Hegel's view?

8. Define the German word Geist.

9. How does Hegel define Absolute Freedom?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Is Hegel writing for everyman or for specific types of people who are interested in a certain kind of self-discovery? Is he defining an archetypal experience of the soul's maturation, or is he talking about the experience divines and mystics undergo as they search for and find enlightenment?

Essay Topic 3

According to Hegel, how does the law of the heart affect the individual's development? Analyze the law of the heart and discuss the stages the individual has to pass through when he follows it as well as what transformation(s) result from following it.

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