MLK Jr.
Birmingham Jail
Where does Martin Luther King Jr. compose his famous letter?
Peaceful and carefree
How does Rousseau characterize life in the state of nature?
I exist
What is the first thing that Descartes discovers he can know with certainty in the Meditations?
Innate ideas
What does Locke deny the existence of?
The view that all knowledge is based on immediate perception
What is empiricism?
It treats people as mere things
In what way does segregation "distort the soul"?
Natural law
What is Locke's name for the law that he claims already exists in the state of nature?
Mystical experience of God
What is the only way Al-Ghazali eventually concludes that we can have knowledge?
A tabula rasa, or "blank slate
How does Locke describe the mind at birth?
The view that all knowledge is based on reason
What is rationalism?
The divine law
What does human law aim to embody, according to Martin Luther King, Jr?
Private ownership of land
What, according to Rousseau, was the first step in the self-enslavement of mankind?/What is the origin of inequality?
The Evil Demon
What thought experiment does Descartes employ in order to discover what we can know for certain?
It is impossible for something to be and not to be at the same time
Give an example of a supposedly innate idea
Justification
What does knowledge require besides true belief?
A willingness to accept the penalty
What does Martin Luther King, Jr. take to be a condition of ethical lawbreaking?
By working the land
How, according to Locke, can property can be rightfully acquired in the state of nature?
A thinking thing, or a mind
What, according to Descartes, is he/are you?
Only when actually perceiving
When, according to Locke, do we think?
Fallibilism
What is the view that we can have knowledge without certainty?
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?
Commonwealth by acquisition
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?
By abstraction
How, according to the empiricists, do we know general facts on the basis of experience?
The view that some knowledge is infallible, and all other knowledge can be grounded on it
What is foundationalism?