John Locke, widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered the first of the British empiricists, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the American Declaration of Independence.
Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau and Kant. Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to pre-existing Cartesian philosophy, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.1
John Locke
×CloseEnglish philosopher and physician (1632–1704)
Born | 29 August 1632 |
Died | 28 October 1704 |
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John Locke
×CloseEnglish philosopher and physician (1632–1704)
Born | 29 August 1632 |
Died | 28 October 1704 |
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John Locke (1632-1704), Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), Robert Filmer Sir (d. 1653), Robert Filmer (1588?-1653), John Edwards (1637-1716), Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715), Paul the Apostle, Saint, Robert Filmer Sir (d. 1653,), William Lowndes (1652-1724), Alfred, ed Howard, Algernon Sidney (1622-1683), Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury Earl of (1621-1683), Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury Earl of (1671-1713), David Hume (1711-1776), Edward Clarke (1649?-1710), Edward Clarke (fl. 1681-1701), Edward Stillingleet Bp. of Worcester (1635-1699), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), John Norris (1657-1711), Nicolas Thoynard (1629-1706), Philippus van Limborch (1633-1712)ID Numbers
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- Wikidata: Q9353
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