The English philosopher and political theorist John Locke began the empiricist tradition and thus initiated the greatest age of British philosophy. He attempted to center philosophy on an analysis of the extent and capabilities of the human mind. John...

The library that John Locke assembled was intended for use rather than for show. Unlike Samuel Pepys, who assembled a collection of some three thousand volumes, about the same size as Locke's, he did not care for display; nor is there evidence to...

John Locke is probably the most important, and certainly the most influential, of all English philosophers. Although he published his first work, typically anonymously, when he was fifty-seven, by the end of his life, barely fifteen years later, he...

Locke, John [addendum] John Locke has been, for the last three decades, the subject of a rapid expansion of interest, stimulated by Oxford University Press Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Yolton, J. S. John Locke: A Descriptive...

John Locke was born in 1632 at Wrington in Somerset. In 1652 he entered Christ Church College, Oxford, where he received his MA in 1658. In that same year he was elected student of Christ Church; in 1660 he became lecturer in Greek, lecturer in...

. 1632–1704. Born in Somerset, he worked mostly in Oxford and London when not in exile because of his political activities against the Stuarts before 1688. His central work was in epistemology, where his ‘new way of IDEAS’ has led to...

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For other persons named John Locke, see John Locke (disambiguation). John Locke, (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract...

Many scholars fail to distinguish between various liberal theories and incorrectly associate John Locke with liberalism. Closer examination of Locke's writings show his ideas cannot always be classified as liberal in the manner scholars use the term today. Locke did not see people as...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Preface This commentary covers Books I and II of Hobbe's Leviathan and Locke's Treatise of Civil Government, which contain the authors' chief political ideas. It is fitting that Hobbes and Locke should be considered together for at least three reasons. First,...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the 2008 White House candidates are "demeaning the presidency" by focusing on the race rather than ideas."We have shrunk our political process to this pathetic dance in which people spend an entire year raising money in order to offer...

Fatal shootings at U.S. colleges or universities in recent years._April 16, 2007: A gunman fatally shoots 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The gunman kills himself._Sept. 2, 2006: Douglas W. Pennington, 49, kills himself and his two...

How was John Locke able in his Second Treatise of Government to reconcile the idea that all men are by nature created equal with the idea that inequalities of wealth are natural and inevitable? As it turns out, the two ideas are actually very logical and harmonious, as the inequalities of wealth are the end result of the natural state in which individuals were first born.

John Locke's summary of social contract chapters 6-8.

In "Two Treaties of Government," John Locke wrote that societies that are not self-governing inevitable surpress their citizens' freedoms. These writings are the philosophical basis for the French and American Revolutions.