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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 use walnuts to illustrate the qualities of things?

2. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?

3. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?

4. What are modes, according to Locke?

5. What example does Locke use for an idea that is innate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Locke define discerning?

3. What does Locke say happens if two people have the same idea about a thing?

4. How does Locke say ideas come to us?

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

6. What does Locke say about sensations experienced in the womb?

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

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

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

10. How does Locke define the faculty of perception?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How would a society predicated on the idea of innate knowledge differ from a society predicated on a Lockean epistemology in which knowledge is shaped by experience? Compare and contrast these societies.

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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