Locke Study Questions

What are the dates of John Locke's birth and death?

Birth: _____ A.D.

Death: _____ A.D.

1632-1704

What was Locke's religious upbringing?

He was raised as a _____.

Puritan

What was his occupation?

He practiced _____.

medicine

Which discipline of philosophy does Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding address?

epistemology

Which one does his Two Treaties on Civil Government address?

_____ philosophy.

political

What is the Latin phrase that illustrates Locke's view on the state of the human mind at birth?

tabula rasa

What does this phrase mean?

It means that the mind is a _____ slate at birth.

blank

John Locke was regarded as the father of the British what?

The British _____.

Empiricism

He, along with Aristotle and Marx, was also regarded as one of the three most influential political philosophers in history. Name the respective political systems that either they influenced or proposed.

Aristotle: the medieval _____.

Locke: the _____.

Marx: the _____.

oligarchy, liberal democracy, communism

By emphasizing the primacy of sense perceptions, what kind of logical reasoning process did Locke promote?

The _____ reasoning.

Inductive

What are Locke's three arguments against the Cartesian Cogito?

_____ must come from somewhere.

_____ and mentally disabled people don't have it.

It is contrary to _____.

self-awareness, children, observation

Locke believed that reality is _____ apart from sense perceptions.

unreachable

According to Locke, what are the two types of essences?

The _____ essence: the "thing in itself."

The _____ essence: the abstraction through naming.

Real, Nominal

According to Locke, what are the two types of qualities in the objects?

The primary (or, _____) qualities, e.g., solidity, extension, figure, etc.

The secondary (or, _____) qualities, e.g., colors, sounds, tastes, etc.

objective, subjective

What are the three social implications of Lockean thought?

_____: i.e., the idea that children are born equal, but society shapes and forms who they are.

Importance of _____.

_____: i.e., the view of how we treat one another based on the fact that knowledge does not give us certainty but a working probability.

Egalitarianism, education, Toleration