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  2. Apr 29, 2024 · John Lockes philosophy inspired and reflected Enlightenment values in its recognition of the rights and equality of individuals, its criticism of arbitrary authority (e.g., the divine right of kings), its advocacy of religious toleration, and its general empirical and scientific temperament.

  3. Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about the life and works of John Locke, the English philosopher and political theorist who influenced the Enlightenment and liberalism. Explore his views on human knowledge, government, property and religious tolerance.

  4. Nov 9, 2005 · John Locke (1632–1704) is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_LockeJohn Locke - Wikipedia

    John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".

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  6. Sep 2, 2001 · John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. Locke’s monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of modern empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to a wide spectrum of topics.

  7. Learn about the life, works, and ideas of John Locke, one of the most influential philosophers and political theorists of the 17th century. Explore his empiricist theory of knowledge, his defense of limited government and religious toleration, and his contributions to theology and education.

  8. In advocating toleration in religion, he was more liberal: freedom of conscience, like property, he argued, is a natural right of all men. Within the possibilities of the time, Locke thus advocated a constitutional mixed government, limited by parliamentary control of the armed forces and of supply.

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