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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 define desire?

2. Where does Locke say our idea of number comes from?

3. What does Locke use as a definition of active powers?

4. What happens to love over time, according to Locke?

5. What does Locke say pleasure and pain are the foundation for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Give an example of active powers.

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

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

5. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

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

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

8. What is the correspondence theory of truth?

9. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

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

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

In the beginning of "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," Locke says that variability in people's ideas undermines the possibility of innate knowledge. Analyzing Locke's writing, describe how Locke accounts for variability in his own philosophy. How does he keep it from being a disruptive force in his own philosophy?

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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