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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 work marks the progress through Hegel's text and meanings?

3. What happens to the mind that gains a reprieve from the fear of death according to Hegel?

4. How does Hegel define ownership?

5. In Hegel's view, what does the spark of the Absolute represent?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

3. According to Hegel, what effect does the awareness of death have on the self?

4. How does Hegel define duty?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Define the German word Geist.

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

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 3

Hegel uses anatomical metaphors to express his theories, such as his comparison of Sensibility to the nervous system, or Reproduction to the intestinal system. What is the role of the body in Hegel's philosophy, and are his metaphors meant to invoke the body as a constant presence behind Hegel's discussion of Reason and the development of the self-consciousness, or are they merely explanatory metaphors?

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