John Locke

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born

August 29, 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England, The United Kingdom

died

October 28, 1704

website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/

genre

Philosophy, Politics, Science

influences

René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes

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John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke 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 conce...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 9,328 ratings · 312 reviews · 406 distinct works

	Second Treatise of Government by John Locke, C.B. MacPherson (editor) 3.68 avg rating — 3,456 ratings — published 1690 — 54 editions	My rating:
	Two Treatises of Government by John Locke, Peter Laslett (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor) 3.72 avg rating — 2,352 ratings — published 1689 — 85 editions	My rating:
	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 3.64 avg rating — 2,278 ratings — published 1690 — 81 editions	My rating:
	The Second Treatise of Government & A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke, Dover Thrift Editions 3.75 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1689 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Letter Concerning Toleration: Humbly Submitted by John Locke, James Tully 3.60 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1689 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Call Me by John Locke, John Locke 3.97 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke, Ian Shapiro (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1689 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Political Writings by John Locke, Gerald Green, David Wootton (Introduction) 3.70 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Bad Doctor 4.07 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	The Reasonableness of Christianity with a Discourse of Miracles & Part of a Third Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke, I.T. Ramsey (Editor), I. Ramsey (Editor) 3.49 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1958	My rating:

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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
― John Locke

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“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”
― John Locke

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