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 Lo...

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 suggest...

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 was,...

It has always been difficult to get the political and the philosophical Locke to agree. When Peter Laslett published his groundbreaking edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Government in 1960, he observed how fluently Locke could move between his major political and philosophical...

Harpham, Edward J., University Press of Kansas, 1992. xii + 239 pp. $29.95--The last thirty years has witnessed an explosion of scholarly books and articles on Locke which, claims Harpham, has "recast our most basic understanding of Locke as a historical actor and...

Provides synopsis of Locke's "Second Treatise of Civil Government." Examines its impact upon the writers of the American Declaration of Independence.