5.4: Review and Discussion Questions
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- Explain Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary qualities.
- While Locke thinks that having any thoughts depends on sense experience, he doesn’t think sense experience is the only source of our ideas. Explain.
- Explain Berkeley’s Idealism.
- How is Berkeley’s Idealism a response to Locke’s epistemology?
- Explain Hume’s view of the contents of the mind.
- What are ideas and impressions? How does Hume distinguish these?
- How does the imagination form new ideas, according to Hume?
- How is Hume’s Empiricism grounded in his philosophy of the mind?
- Explain Hume’s skepticism about morality. How does he argue for this view?
- How does Hume analyze our notion of the cause-effect relation? Explain Hume’s skepticism about causation.
- Why does Hume deny that we can have knowledge of an external world?
- Why is Hume skeptical about the rationality of inductive argument?
- Why does Hume doubt we could ever have reason to believe in miracles?
- What is the Design Argument for the existence of God?
- Explain Hume’s objections to the Design Argument.