Instructions
Due, as an attachment, via the “Assignments” tool on Canvas, by 11:55pm
Monday, March 4 (in PDF or any format easily converted to PDF, e.g. MSWord,
OpenOffice, LATE X, RTF, plain text).
Answer any one of the questions listed here in 2–3 pages (double spaced).
Each question is about some issue raised most centrally in a certain part of the
reading. However, you can and should use material from anywhere in the text
where it’s relevant to the answer.
Because this is an exam rather than a paper, I will give priority to
accuracy over originality in grading. However, all the questions do require
some thought; they can’t simply be read out of the texts. Moreover, in
many (if not all) cases the “correct” answer is unavoidably a matter of
interpretation: in such cases it would be safest to reproduce what I said in
class, but it will also be acceptable if you’re clearly following some other
reasonable interpretation. And, of course, as usual, your answer must be
“original” in the sense that it is your own work. (If you use any outside
source — which I don’t recommend — you must cite it.)[1]If you have
any questions about policies on plagiarism and related issues, please see
https://www.ue.ucsc.edu/academic_misconduct.
You can cite the Second Treatise of Government by chapter and section
number (e.g. 17.197) and the Essay Concerning Human Understanding by book,
chapter, and section number (e.g. 2.28.6). If you cite an outside source, you may
use any citation format you want, just so long as you provide enough information
for me to figure out what you are citing.
You can find answers to some commonly asked questions about my
assignments and grading in my FAQ.