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Chapter Seventeen: John Locke
Brief Biography of John Locke: Summary of Ideas, Portrait & Quotes
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Seventeen: John Locke
John Locke was a 17th-century philosopher concerned primarily
with society and epistemology. An Englishman, Locke's notions of a "government
with the consent of the governed" and man's natural rights—life,
liberty, and estate (property)—had an enormous influence on the development
of political philosophy. His ideas formed the basis for the concepts used in
American law and government, allowing the colonists to justify revolution.
Locke's epistemology and philosophy of mind also had a significant influence
well into the Enlightenment period. Locke has been placed in a group called
the British Empiricists, which includes David Hume and George Berkeley. Locke
is perhaps most often contrasted with Thomas Hobbes.
In his main work, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” Locke
critiques the philosophy of innate ideas and builds a theory of the mind and
knowledge that gives priority to the senses and experience. His adherence to
this doctrine is what marks him out as an empiricist rather than a rationalist
such as his critic Leibniz. ... (see book for more)
There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may
not justly demand a Reason.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed,
without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Religion,
which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly
elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein
men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human
perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. (John Locke)
A lively and concise journey through the central
ideas of thirty famous philosophers. From ancient Indian, Greek and Chinese
Philosophy to modern Western Philosophy, this book explores the changing foundations
of human knowledge and their effect on how we think and live.
Includes full page portraits, brief biographies and selected quotes from some
of the greatest minds of human history on the universal subjects of Truth,
Reality, Nature, Cosmos, Wisdom, Morality, Mind, Education, Politics, Art,
Religion & God.
Written for the lay person, while remaining true to the original ideas, this
is an engaging account of the Metaphysical foundations of Philosophy that is
both illuminating and thought provoking. (Cover Photograph: Plato & Aristotle
- The School of Athens by Raphael)
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