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John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London. John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ()) [13] was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
Portrait of John Locke; S. Social contract; Sortal; State of nature; T. Tabula rasa This page was last edited on 9 May 2024, at 05:48 (UTC). Text is available under ...
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1689 (although dated 1690) with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding.
John Locke. Second Treatise of Government at Project Gutenberg; Two Treatises of Civil Government public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Extensive Locke bibliography Archived 13 October 2009 at the Portuguese Web Archive; John Locke, The Two Treatises of Civil Government (Hollis ed.) [1689] on The Online Library of Liberty
The John Locke Lectures are a series of annual lectures in philosophy given at the University of Oxford. Named for British philosopher John Locke, the Locke Lectures are the world's most prestigious lectures in philosophy, and are among the world's most prestigious academic lectures. They were established in 1950 by the bequest of Henry Wilde.
Title page from the first edition of Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the ...
John Locke (born 1951) is a writer and novelist who was the eighth author—and first self-published author—to sell over one million eBooks on Amazon.com. [1] Locke is a New York Times best-selling author, and is best known for his Donovan Creed thriller series and Emmett Love Western series. [2] [3] [4] His works are self-published worldwide.
Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England and responds to the problem of religion and government by proposing religious toleration as the answer. This "letter" is addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir": this was Locke's close friend Philipp van Limborch, who published it without Locke's knowledge. [1]