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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 are all words generated by, in Locke's account?

2. What defines a philosophical usage of a word, according to Locke?

3. What is the effect of a passive power?

4. Where does Locke say we see the origin of our idea of number?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is abstraction, according to Locke?

2. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

3. How does Locke define power, in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"?

4. How does Locke define words?

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

6. What do we do when we define a word, in Locke's account?

7. What is the correspondence theory of truth?

8. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

To what degree is this book internally consistent? How much does it follow the rules it lays out?

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