Locke, John(1632–1704) John Locke, English empiricist and moral and political philosopher, was born in Wrington, Somerset. Locke's father, an attorney and for a time a clerk to the justices of the peace in Somerset, fought on the...

John Locke (1632–1704), was an English philosopher, Oxford academic, and occasional bureaucrat. He was born at Wrington, Somerset, on August 29 and died at Oates, Essex on October 28. Locke's fame as a philosopher rests chiefly on two...

(born August 29, 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England—died October 28, 1704, Oates, Essex) English philosopher who was an initiator of the Enlightenment in England and France, an inspirer of the U.S. Constitution, and the author of, among other...

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...

(born Aug. 29, 1632, Wrington, Somerset, Eng.—died Oct. 28, 1704, Oates, Essex) English philosopher. Educated at Oxford, principally in medicine and science, he later became physician and adviser to the future 3rd earl of Shaftesbury...

. 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...