SparkNotes: Philosophy of History: Review Quiz

The category of original history is defined by:

(A) The historians unbiased view of events.

(B) The historians participation in the times he writes about.

(C) The blending of folk tales with direct accounts.

(D) The absence of Spirit in any recognizable form.

The four types of reflective history are:

(A) Universal, philosophic, critical, and specialized.

(B) Philosophic, original, critical, and pragmatic.

(C) Universal, pragmatic, critical, and specialized.

(D) Universal, rational, pre-reflective, and original.

Hegel seems to heartily disapprove of which historical method?

(A) Critical history.

(B) Universal history.

(C) Naive history.

(D) Reflective history.

Hegel believes that history can teach us which lessons for the future?

(A) None

(B) Moral lessons

(C) Lessons in statecraft

(D) Lessons in correct democracy

(E) Ethical lessons

Which historical method involves a universal viewpoint but not a priori concepts?

(A) Pragmatic history

(B) Philosophic history

(C) Original history

(D) Reflective history

Hegel lists what as a hostile hindrance to the progress of Spirit?

(A) The State.

(B) The theory of an original human state of nature.

(C) Spirit itself.

(D) Human folly and accidental occurances.

Hegel considers his view of the concept of development to be:

(A) absolute

(B) formalistic

(C) concrete

(D) absolute and concrete

The nature of the stages of history in their most general sense is a subject for:

(A) Philosophical logic.

(B) Philosophic history.

(C) The philosophy of spirit.

(D) Reflective history.

Hegel cites Schlegel as a key proponent of which idea?

(A) The importance of Sanskrit.

(B) The original human state of nature.

(C) Philosophic history.

(D) The nature of Spirit.

Hegel uses what as a metaphor for Spirit:

(A) A seed.

(B) A house.

(C) A book.

(D) A star

The first social consciousness of freedom was realized by:

(A) The Greeks.

(B) The Orientals.

(C) The Germans.

(D) The Romans.

Hegel refers to history as:

(A) An orchard.

(B) A slaughter-bench.

(C) A march of the soldiers of Reason.

(D) An angel looking backwards.

Hegel refers to historical figures like Julius Caesar as:

(A) World-historical individuals.

(B) Unconscious history-agents.

(C) History-engines.

(D) Pawns.

Which two things come together as the means of history?

(A) Spirit and nature.

(B) Time and the infinite.

(C) Individuals and the masses.

(D) Idea and human passions.

What is Hegel referring to with the phrase, the material in which the rational end-goal is to be realized?

(A) The Spirit.

(B) Human passion.

(C) The State.

(D) Reason.

Hegel explicitly rejects which models of the State?

(A) The negative freedom model and the patriarchal model.

(B) The patriarchal model and the democratic model.

(C) The Athenian model and the Oriental model.

(D) The pragmatic model and the Oriental model.

According to Hegel, world history should be concerned only with:

(A) Peoples who revolt.

(B) Peoples who explicitly reject theocracy.

(C) People who form States.

(D) All of the above.

Hegel refers to which historical figure in his discussion of the State?

(A) Proteus

(B) Fenelon

(C) Aristotle

(D) Pericles

The term Volksgeist refers to :

(A) The spirit of a land.

(B) The State.

(C) Practical reason.

(D) The spirit of a people.

Hegel refers to which figure in the context of a priori knowledge in historical study?

(A) Fenelon

(B) Kepler

(C) Plato

(D) Caesar

Which of the following is the prerequisite for the emergence of philosophy?

(A) Philosophers.

(B) Educational institutions.

(C) Culture in general.

(D) Revolutionary spirit.

Spirit can be hindered by:

(A) Nature

(B) God

(C) The State

(D) The cunning of Reason.

What does Hegel say about the decline of the spirit of a given people?

(A) It never declines.

(B) It dies in national suicide.

(C) It dies a natural death.

(D) It dies in stagnation.