STUDY QUESTIONS
Please answer all of the following questions.
1. What are the so-called speculative and
practical innate ideas, and what is Locke’s main argument against them?
2. Explain Locke’s distinction between ideas of
sensation and ideas of reflection.
3. Explain Locke’s view of simple ideas, complex
ideas, and the three mental processes involved in forming complex ideas.
4. Explain Locke’s distinction between primary,
secondary and tertiary qualities.
5. Explain Locke’s view of the state of nature,
the fundamental law of nature, and the justification of revolution.
6. Explain Berkeley’s idealism and God’s role as
the source of perceptions.
7. Explain Berkeley’s arguments for idealism
from primary/secondary qualities and simplicity.
8. Explain Berkeley’s two solutions to the
problem of God and evil.
9. Explain Hume’s view of the origin of ideas
and the test for meaning.
10. Explain Hume’s three principles of the
association of ideas.
11. What is the traditional notion of the self,
and what is Hume’s criticism of it?
12. What is the traditional notion of necessary connection,
and what is Hume’s alternative explanation?
13. What is Hume’s main argument against
miracles and his four additional arguments against miracles.
14. Explain Hume’s view about emotion and moral
judgment, and his view that “ought cannot be derived from is”.
15. Explain Hume’s view of radical skepticism
and natural belief.
[Reading 1: Locke against Innate Ideas]
16. What is Locke’s criticism of the argument
for innate ideas from universal consent?
17. What is Locke’s criticism of the view that
reason discovers innate ideas?
[Reading 2: Berkeley against Material Objects]
18. Explain Berkeley’s criticism of primary
qualities of three-dimensional extension in material objects.
19. Explain Berkeley’s criticism of the view
that God created matter as an instrument to cause perception of external
objects within humans.
[Reading 3: Hume against a Continuous Self]
20. Explain Hume’s
reasoning for his view that personal identity is only a bundle of fleeting
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