Quiz: The Philosophy of Right

10 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. 1. What does Hegel say the monarch is needed for in a fully developed constitution?

   To draft the laws and present them to the Estates himself To command the Estates assembly in person To be elected as the people’s chief officer Only to say “Yes” and give the formal final decision
2. 2. How does Hegel judge the division of the church into several churches?

   As a fault to be undone by an established state church As a misfortune that weakened the authority of the state As a fortunate event that let the state become rational As irrelevant to the nature of the state
3. 3. According to Hegel, what remedy for poverty had experience in England and especially Scotland shown to work best?

   Leaving the poor to their fate and to public begging Generous poor rates paid by every parish in the land Building workhouses with compulsory labour for the able Sending the poor to the colonies
4. 4. Whose philosophy does Hegel hold “chiefly responsible” for the standpoint of irony?

   Kant’s Fichte’s Schelling’s Spinoza’s
5. 5. According to § 67, what distinguishes selling one’s services from slavery?

   The services are sold only for a limited time The worker chooses his employer freely Services are paid for in money rather than in kind or keep Mental work cannot be sold at all, only manual or bodily work
6. 6. What does Hegel credit Rousseau with making the principle of the state?

   A social instinct Divine authority Fear of violent death Will
7. 7. According to Dyde, where do the Additions in the text come from?

   Students’ notes of Hegel’s lectures, not supervised by him Dyde’s explanatory comments as translator Hegel’s own marginal notes in his copy of the book Passages from the Encyclopaedia inserted by Gans
8. 8. What does Hegel say Cicero did, to illustrate the effect of easy Roman divorce?

   Left his whole fortune to friends instead of to his children Divorced his wife to marry another for a dowry to pay debts Adopted an heir to keep the family sacra Sold his son three times under paternal power
9. 9. Into which three powers does Hegel divide the political state in § 273?

   Legislature, executive and judiciary Legislature, executive and the crown Monarchy, aristocracy and democracy Crown, church and army
10. 10. How does Hegel show that Kant’s test of universalisability is empty (§ 135)?

    Kant’s own examples of duty contradict one another Duty cannot be known without revelation and the Church Any maxim at all can be stated in universal form A rule that there be no property involves no contradiction