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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 that makes philosophy necessary and valuable according to Hegel?

2. What does the conscience create according to Hegel?

3. When does the complete spiritual being begin to function in the world according to Hegel?

4. According to Hegel, what is there in common between tool making and the work of art?

5. In Hegel's philosophy, enlightenment is superior to stages of development that are associated with what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Define the German word Geist.

5. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

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

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

8. How does Hegel define duty?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to Hegel, what is the difference between duty, morality, law and art? These things all help the self mediate between subjective self-awareness and existence as an objective thing in the world. How are duty, morality, law, and art different in how they mediate the different stages of the opposition the self encounters?

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between concrete individuality and Absolute Spirit in Hegel's philosophy? They both strike a balance between internal and external reality and experience, but how are they separate terms?

Essay Topic 3

What is Hegel's relationship with art? What is his ideal artistic form, or is life itself an artistic form for the Absolute Spirit?

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