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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 makes philosophers think that people do not have free will?

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

3. What does Locke use to illustrate the difference between freedom and fate?

4. What do we have when a word can no longer be defined, according to Locke?

5. What happens to the man in the illustration?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Locke say words ultimately refer to?

3. How does Locke resolve the debate between determinists and libertarians?

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

5. What is the debate between determinists and libertarians?

6. What is abstraction, according to Locke?

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

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

9. Give an example of active powers.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How would you reconcile Locke's philosophy with Jung's idea of the collective unconscious, which is a body of archetypes and symbols that are held and maintained in common by all human beings, with roles like the hero, the helper, the warrior, the seducer, the joker, the king and queen, the servant, the thief, etc. Is there a way to see the idea of the collective unconscious as being compatible with a tabula rasa mind?

Essay Topic 3

Locke speculates that desire is unhappiness in the absence of previous delight--how does he handle the question of original experience, and how could his philosophy respond to the doctrine of original sin?

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