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John Locke

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

English philosopher and physician (1632–1704)

Born 29 August 1632
Died 28 October 1704

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  • Cover of: An essay concerning human understanding: in four books

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  • Cover of: Two treatises of government: by Iohn Locke.

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  • Cover of: A letter concerning toleration

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  • Cover of: The works of John Locke.

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  • Cover of: The second treatise of government: and, A letter concerning toleration

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  • Cover of: The conduct of the understanding

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  • Cover of: The reasonableness of Christianity: with A discourse of miracles, and part of A third letter concerning toleration

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  • Cover of: John Locke: an essay concerning toleration and other writings on law and politics, 1667-1683

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  • Cover of: The educational writings of John Locke: ed. by John William Adamson.

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  • Cover of: Second Treatises of Government: an Essay Original

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  • Cover of: Essays on the Law of Nature: The Latin Text with a Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Transcripts of Locke's Shorthand in his Journal for 1676

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  • Cover of: A commonplace-book to the Holy Bible: or, The Scripture's sufficiency practically demonstrated. Wherein the substance of Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship, and manners, is reduced to its proper heads: weighty cases are resolved, truths confirmed, and difficult texts illustrated and explained.

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  • Cover of: Second treatise of government
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  • Cover of: Lettre Sur la Tolérance
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  • Cover of: reasonableness of Christianity, as delivered in the Scriptures

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  • Cover of: Works of John Locke esq: in three volumes ....

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English philosopher and physician (1632–1704)

Born 29 August 1632
Died 28 October 1704

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October 10, 2022 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong names
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