MLK Jr. & J.S. Mill
Hobbes & Rousseau
Descartes & Al-Ghazali
Locke & empiricism
Philosophical concepts
100

A willingness to accept the penalty

What does Martin Luther King, Jr. take to be a condition of ethical lawbreaking?

100

Peaceful and carefree

How does Rousseau characterize life in the state of nature?

100

I exist

What is the first thing that Descartes discovers he can know with certainty in the Meditations?

100

Innate ideas

What does Locke deny the existence of?

100

The view that all knowledge is based on sensation

What is empiricism?

200
It treats people as mere things ("it" rather than "thou")

In what way does segregation "distort the soul"?

200

Forming a covenant

How, according to Hobbes, do we exit the state of nature?

200

Mystical experience of God

What is the only way Al-Ghazali eventually concludes that we can have knowledge?

200

A tabula rasa, or "blank slate

How does Locke describe the mind at birth?

200

The view that all knowledge is based on reason

What is rationalism?

300

The divine law

What does human law aim to embody, according to Martin Luther King, Jr?

300

Private ownership of land

What, according to Rousseau, was the first step in the self-enslavement of mankind?/What is the origin of inequality?

300

The Evil Demon

What thought experiment does Descartes employ in order to discover what we can know for certain?

300

It is impossible for something to be and not to be at the same time

Give an example of a supposedly innate idea

300

Idealism vs. Materialism

What is the view that only mind exists, versus the view that matter exists?

400

What directly concerns only oneself

What, in general, belongs to the proper domain of liberty (that is, those freedoms which must be protected at all costs)?

400

The sovereign

Who is the single person who "carries" the commonwealth, according to Hobbes?

400

A thinking thing, or a mind

What, according to Descartes, is he/are you?

400

Immediate sensation

What sort of knowledge is absolutely infallible according to empiricism?

400

Fallibilism

What is the view that we can have knowledge without certainty?

500

The majority must be willing to also abide by the same law.

Under what conditions is it just for a majority to compel a minority group to follow a certain law?

500

Commonwealth by acquisition

What is Hobbes's term for a commonwealth formed as a result of military conquest?
500

God is a perfect idea, and a perfect idea can only have been implanted in me by a perfect being

How does Descartes argue for the existence of God?

500

By abstraction

How, according to the empiricists, do we know general facts on the basis of experience?

500

The view that some knowledge is infallible, and all other knowledge can be grounded on it

What is foundationalism?