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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 the stage after the "beautiful soul" in Hegel's view?

2. At the level of freedom and terror, what does self-consciousness have according to Hegel?

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

4. According the Hegel's philosophy, what is the one state where complete annihilation of difference occurs?

5. In Hegel's philosophy, which aspect of mind can operate in ways that do not touch daily life in a cause-effect manner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is enlightenment and what are its consequences according to Hegel?

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

3. How does Hegel define the artificer?

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

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

6. How does Hegel define Absolute Freedom?

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

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

9. How does Hegel define self-estrangement?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an evaluative review of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Where is the book most itself? Where is it unresolved, or riven with internal tensions? How are those tensions contained? What are the forces that are trying to pull Phenomenology of Spirit apart?

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