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    3 days ago · John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London. 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".

  2. 2 days ago · Philosopher John Locke argued that the authority of government stems from a social contract based on natural rights. According to Locke, the authority of government was limited and required the consent of the governed.

  3. 4 days ago · 1 J. C. Walmsley and F. Waldmann, ‘John Locke and the Toleration of Catholics: A New Manuscript’, The Historical Journal 62 (2019): 1093–115. 2 F. Waldmann, ‘John Locke as a Reader of Hobbes’s Leviathan : A New Manuscript’, The Journal of Modern History 93 (2021): 245–82.

  4. Mar 29, 2024 · Social contract, in political philosophy, an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each. The most influential social-contract theorists were the 17th–18th century philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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  5. 2 days ago · Descartes argued the theory of innate knowledge and that all humans were born with knowledge through the higher power of God. It was this theory of innate knowledge that was later combated by philosopher John Locke (1632–1704), an empiricist. Empiricism holds that all knowledge is acquired through experience. Physiology and psychology

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  7. Locke wrote “Of Property” to try to justify government authority in the wake of a constitutional crisis in Britain after the English Civil War.

  8. 1 day ago · John Locke was a 17th-century philosopher whose ideas on liberty, government, and the social contract laid foundational principles for modern democratic theory. Introduction to John Locke Imagine the dawn of a new era where the rights of the individual are recognized and protected against the arbitrary will of rulers.

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