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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. When does desire become action, in Locke's opinion?

2. What does Locke say allows us to see ourselves as free agents?

3. What does Locke say liberty is aimed at?

4. What do cause and effect derive from according to Locke?

5. In what way was Locke's perspective unique in the debate between free will and fate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

3. What role does Locke attribute to God in forming man as a language-user?

4. What is the difference between love and desire, according to Locke?

5. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

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

7. What does Locke say is the difference between a free will and a free agent?

8. How does Locke define words?

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

10. Where do the notions of good and evil come from, in Locke's opinion?

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

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 3

How Christian is Locke's philosophy? In what specifics is it Christian, and in what ways does it have allegiances to other forms of religion? Is the ability of the individual to seek his own happiness a substitute for religion in Locke's philosophy? How does Locke's philosophy perform the central task of Christianity, namely of letting people transcend the physical plane, where death exists, and live another eternal life beyond life?

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