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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 happens to the man in the illustration?
2. What happens when you strip away all the details of a thing, in Locke's account?
3. According to Locke, the lack of what would make social life impossible?
4. What does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?
5. What is a power, according to Locke?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Locke achieve by claiming that good and evil come from pleasure and pain?
2. Where does Locke say our conception of 'number' comes from?
3. Give an example of active powers.
4. How is love like memory, in Locke's account?
5. What does Locke say is the difference between a free will and a free agent?
6. What does Locke say is the only way to understand the properties of things?
7. Who does Locke say is guilty of these abuses?
8. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?
9. How does Locke suggest philosophers curb the abuse of words?
10. What do we do when we define a word, in Locke's account?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions do they resolve?
Essay Topic 2
In what way is Locke defining a science of knowledge, and in what way is "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" a book of philosophy? Does Locke's taxonomy of knowledge make his philosophy scientific? What would it mean if we define "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" as science, as a taxonomy of ideas, rather than as philosophy?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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