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  2. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Wikipedia

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    John Wynne published An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning the Human Understanding, with Locke's approval, in 1696. Likewise, Louisa Capper wrote An Abridgment of Locke's Essay concerning the Human Understanding, published in 1811. Some European philosophers saw the book's impact on psychology as comparable to Isaac Newton's impact upon ...

  3. State of nature - Wikipedia

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    John Locke considers the state of nature in his Second Treatise on Civil Government written around the time of the Exclusion Crisis in England during the 1680s. For Locke, in the state of nature all men are free "to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature."

  4. John Locke - Wikipedia

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    Locke's political theory was founded upon that of social contract. Unlike Thomas Hobbes, Locke believed that human nature is characterised by reason and tolerance. Like Hobbes, Locke believed that human nature allows people to be selfish. This is apparent with the introduction of currency.

  5. Two Treatises of Government - Wikipedia

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    Locke is situated within changing religious, philosophical, scientific, and political dimensions of 17th century England. Objecting to the use of the contemporary concept of economic man to describe Locke's view of human nature, Huyler emphases the "virtue of industriousness" of Locke's Protestant England. Productive work is man's earthly ...

  6. Human nature - Wikipedia

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    For example, Creation as found in the Book of Genesis provides a theory on human nature. [44] Catechism of the Catholic Church, under the chapter "Dignity of the human person", provides an article about man as image of God, vocation to beatitude, freedom, human acts, passions, moral conscience, virtues, and sin. [45]

  7. Primary–secondary quality distinction - Wikipedia

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    John Locke. The primary–secondary quality distinction is a conceptual distinction in epistemology and metaphysics, concerning the nature of reality.It is most explicitly articulated by John Locke in his Essay concerning Human Understanding, but earlier thinkers such as Galileo and Descartes made similar distinctions.

  8. Labor theory of property - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the theoretical deficiencies of Locke's theory of property, Wood also argues that Locke also provides a justification for the dispossession of indigenous land. The idea that making land productive serves as the basis of property rights establishes the corollary that the failure to improve land could mean forfeiting property ...

  9. Of the Conduct of the Understanding - Wikipedia

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    In this tract, Locke also points out that "there are instances of very mean people, who have raised their minds to a great sense and understanding of religion,” such as Huguenot “peasantry.” [4] In a 1731 sermon, delivered in New England and published the next year, George Berkeley countered that this Lockean observation had proven ...