Not Locke
What view of God did Baruch Spinoza accept?
Pantheistic pg 92
What phrase is Locke best known for?
tabula rasa OR "blank tablet" pg 95
How does Locke define ideas?
Whatever is in the mind pg 95
The book describes simple ideas as a tablet. How does it describe complex ideas?
As a computer pg 96
What law does Locke believe all other law is grounded in?
Natural law pg 100
According to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz what are the elemental atoms of reality?
Monads pg 93
What title is Locke given in the book?
The "Father of Modern Empiricism" pg 94
Sensation and reflection pg 95
How does the mind move from a simple idea to a complex idea?
Through combining, comparing, and separating OR compounding, abstracting, and relating pg 96
What are the three types of law described by Locke?
1. Law of opinion
2. Civil law
3. Divine law pg 100
What is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz credited with?
Developing calculus before Isaac Newton pg 93
How does Locke believe that knowledge is gained?
a posteriori OR after experience pg 95
How are sensations described?
Things experienced through the five senses pg 95-96
Does Locke argue that ideas such as eternity are a priori or a posteriori?
a posteriori pg 97
To protect humans from other humans pg 101
What maxim is Baruch Spinoza best known for?
Deus sive natura OR "God or nature" pg 92
How does Locke categorize the qualities of something?
Primary and secondary qualities pg 98
How is reflection described?
Involving awareness, thinking, doubting, reasoning, willing, and other activities of the mind pg 96
What is one of the examples given by the book of a simple idea becoming a complex idea?
What is one of the examples given by Locke of moral law?
Where there is no property, there is no injustice OR no government allows absolute liberty pg 101
What distinctions did Baruch Spinoza make of God and what do they refer to?
natura naturans refers to God's substance and attributes by which he acts.
natura naturata refers to the ways in which God expresses or manifests himself in the world pg 93
How does the book describe primary and secondary qualities?
Primary qualities are inseparably related to the thing itself
Secondary qualities do not inhere an object, but are the qualities the object has the power to create in us pg 98
What are the four kinds of simple ideas?
1. Discrete sensory data
2. Discrete reflections
3. Qualities discovered through the cooperation of the senses
4. Ideas derived through a cooperation of the senses and reflection pg 96
What idea does Locke believe does not exist, but is merely created by the mind?
Universals pg 97
How does the book describe each of the laws laid out by Locke?
Law of opinion - general precepts established by public opinion
Civil law - law enacted by governments and enforced by law enforcement agencies
Divine law - law known through natural reason pg 100