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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 effect does desire have on men, according to Locke?

2. Where does Locke say our idea of number comes from?

3. What does Locke say liberty is aimed at?

4. How does Locke say people should use language?

5. How can we understand the properties of things, according to Locke?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three ways in which people abuse words, in Locke's account?

2. What does Locke say is the danger in man's freedom to use words however he likes?

3. How is love like memory, in Locke's account?

4. What is the correspondence theory of truth?

5. What does Locke achieve by claiming that good and evil come from pleasure and pain?

6. Who does Locke say is guilty of these abuses?

7. How does Locke define power, in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

8. How does Locke resolve the debate between determinists and libertarians?

9. How does Locke suggest philosophers curb the abuse of words?

10. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you reconcile Locke's philosophy with Jung's idea of the collective unconscious, which is a body of archetypes and symbols that are held and maintained in common by all human beings, with roles like the hero, the helper, the warrior, the seducer, the joker, the king and queen, the servant, the thief, etc. Is there a way to see the idea of the collective unconscious as being compatible with a tabula rasa mind?

Essay Topic 2

Locke speculates that desire is unhappiness in the absence of previous delight--how does he handle the question of original experience, and how could his philosophy respond to the doctrine of original sin?

Essay Topic 3

In the beginning of "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," Locke says that variability in people's ideas undermines the possibility of innate knowledge. Analyzing Locke's writing, describe how Locke accounts for variability in his own philosophy. How does he keep it from being a disruptive force in his own philosophy?

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