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100
Hegel completed most of his writings during this time period.
What is the 19th Century?
100
What does Hegel provide in the Phenomenology of Spirit?
What is a critique of biological determinism? (pg. 74)
100
What is Hegel's alternative to the traditional point, counterpoint logical model?
What is dialectics?
100
Name Hegel's three hierarchical racial groups
What are the Negroes, the Mongolians, and the Caucasians?
100
What is the between Hegel's discourse on race and gender?
What is nature?
200
Hegel embraces this form of nature determinism.
What is the natural environment? (pg. 78)
200
Name four scientific fields of study that Hegel critiques?
What is phrenology, astrology, palmistry, and physiognomy? (pg.74)
200
What are Kant's terms for the polarized ideas in a dialectical model?
What is thesis antithesis?
200
What are the three sub-categories of Hegel's superior race?
What is the Germanic, Romanic, and Slavic ethnic groups?
200
According to Hegel, how is the penis superior to the clitoris and what does this represent?
What is his idea that because the penis is active in feeling and the clitoris is not and this represents Hegel's reasoning for the inferiority of women?
300
What two "scientific" authorities did Hegel rely on concerning the racism of his time?
Who are Georges Cuvier & Pieter Camper? (pg.74)
300
What was Hegel's understanding of what we know today as the social construction of race and racism?
What is the idea that race is are social constructs in which those "with reason" put those "without reason" in a subordinate position?
300
What is the resolution of thesis antithesis?
What is synthesis?
300
Which racial group does Hegel characterize as creating only havoc, building nothing, constituting no advance in world history?
What is the Mongol or Asiatic race? (pg. 84)
300
List the three types of classes that Hegel identifies in System of Ethical Life.
What is "substantial or immediate [agricultural] class, the reflecting or formal [business] class, and the universal class (the class of civil servants)." (pg. 110)
400
What is Hegel's deciding factor for distinguishing the Old World and the New?
What is the earlier or later period at which the regions became known in world history? (pg. 80)
400
Finish the sentence where Hegel's paradigm on racism is discovered by Tibebu.
What is "No colour has any superiority, it being simply a matter of being used to it, although one can speak of the objective superiority of the color of the Caucasian race as against that of the Negro." (pg. 79)
400
What German philosopher for whom Hegel's dialectical model was fundamental in his conceptualization of history?
Who is Marx?
400
According to Hegel, what does the Caucasian spirit achieve through reaching absolute unity with itself?
What is self-determination, self-development, and the beginning of world history?
400
In what ways does Hegel give too much power to nature and too little to spirit (culture) which is inevitably contradictory?
What is by deriving spiritual gradations of racial hierarchy from factors attributed to the natural environment. (pg. 111)
500
What are the determinate differences between the three main landmasses of the Old World?
What is Africa as an undifferentiated unity, Asia has an unmediated differentiation (both one sided), and Europe represents normalcy, the balance and harmony of mediated differentiated, reconciled unity. (pg. 80)
500
What theory does Hegel part with in Phenomenology and how does he do so?
What is the theory that "spirit is no bone". He does so by his reliance on Camper who holds the idea that the physical differences among the various races are "mainly in the formation of the skull and the face" (pg. 81)
500
What is the truth after the resolution of all dialectical processes?
What is totality?
500
Explain how the undifferentiated mass of the African terrain supports Hegel's theory of the Negroes.
What is the block quote on page 83?
500
According to Tibebu what is at the heart of Hegel's social philosophy?
What is being heartless toward the weak, the meek, and the downtrodden. An expression of the hubris of his misanthropy?