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...

John Locke is heralded as one of the most prominent British philosophers and men of letters. His most important philosophical work, An Essay concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books (1689), had a profound influence on eighteenth-century thought...

John Locke, as the author of the Two Treatises of Government (1690), must be recognized as one of the foremost influences on American revolutionary thought. Although recent scholarship into the origins of the ideology of the American Revolution has...

The English philosopher and political theorist John Locke (1632-1704) 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...

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...