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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 consequence does the fact that knowledge is limited have on our knowledge, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke say about the difference between reflection and sensation?

3. What does Locke describe the mind as?

4. What does Locke say was the second thing he wanted to study?

5. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between natural principles and innate principles?

2. In what way is knowledge limited, according to Locke?

3. What example does Locke use of natural principles?

4. How does Locke define retention?

5. How does Locke use the concept of number in his discussion of primary qualities?

6. What benefits do humans receive from understanding, according to Locke?

7. How does Locke define practical principles?

8. What arguments does Locke make against Descartes' philosophy?

9. What does Locke set out to do in Book II?

10. What aspect of knowledge does Locke exclude from "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Locke reconcile his empirical epistemological philosophy with spiritual or non-sensual or other-worldly experience? Do metaphysical questions simply have to be avoided, in Lockean philosophy, or is there a way to account for them?

Essay Topic 2

Which was more important in Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," the actual terminology Locke uses for breaking knowledge down into parts, or the concept that epistemology liberates people from the concepts of instinctual knowledge of concepts like right and wrong?

Essay Topic 3

Locke's definition of experience and language is based solely on individual experience--but what is the role of the family in promoting certain knowledge and restricting or prohibiting other kinds of knowledge? Does Locke account for teachers and parents in his arguments about knowledge and experience?

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