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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. How does Locke handle the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

2. What are modes, according to Locke?

3. Where do secondary qualities originate, according to Locke?

4. What does Locke say about sensations that an infant feels in utero?

5. Abstraction is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Locke define abstraction?

2. How does Locke define the faculty of perception?

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

4. What does Locke say about the innateness of moral principles?

5. What is the difference between sensation and reflection, in Locke's account?

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

7. How does Locke define discerning?

8. How does Locke define retention?

9. How is duration developed from simple ideas, according to Locke?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the historical effect of Locke's philosophy? What preceded it, and what proceeded from it? What historical development can Locke's work be seen as a part of? Describe his place in that development.

Essay Topic 2

How would Locke account for the philosophy of deconstruction--or the notion that language is ultimately self-referential, and that meaning is eternally deferred, never arriving at an object per se? Is Locke's theory of language predicated on an ultimate arrival, or can it handle the notion that truth is, in Nietzsche's phrase, a mobile army of metaphors?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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