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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 does Locke say we about words that cannot be defined any further?

2. According to Locke, the lack of what would make social life impossible?

3. What does Locke say is ultimately grounded in pleasure and pain?

4. What defines a civil word, according to Locke?

5. Where does Locke say our ideas of morality come from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Locke say is the danger in man's freedom to use words however he likes?

3. Where does Locke say our conception of 'number' comes from?

4. What is the correspondence theory of truth?

5. Why are most words general, according to Locke?

6. How does Locke define words?

7. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

8. What does Locke achieve by claiming that good and evil come from pleasure and pain?

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

10. Who does Locke say is guilty of these abuses?

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 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 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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