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John Locke

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Born: August 28 1632

Died: 2727 10 17041704

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John Locke was an English philosopher. He is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and contributors to liberal theory. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. This influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence.

Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin for modern conceptions of identity and "the self", figuring prominently in the later works of philosophers such as David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Locke was the first Western philosopher to define the self through a continuity of "consciousness." He also postulated that the mind was a "blank slate" or "tabula rasa"; that is, contrary to Cartesian or Christian philosophy, Locke maintained that people are born without innate ideas.

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John Locke

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Books from John Locke

Second Treatise of Government

Two Treatises of Government

A Letter Concerning Toleration

The Second Treatise of Government/A Letter Concerning Toleration

Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

Locke: Political Writings

Another Man, Another Chance

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion

Of the Abuse of Words

Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau.

The Reasonableness of Christianity with a Discourse of Miracles & Part of a Third Letter Concerning Toleration (Library of Modern Religious Thought)

John Locke: 7 Works

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding 1, Books 1-2

Works of John Locke

The Leviathan (1651), The Two Treatises of Government (1689), The Social Contract (1762), The Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776): The Original Texts ... and The Founding Fathers of the United States

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume II

Some Thoughts Concerning Education/Of the Conduct of the Understanding

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Vol 2 MDCXC, Books 3-4