The English philosopher and political John Locke was born August 29, 1632, in Wrington, United Kingdom. Years 1652-1667, Locke was a student and then priest at Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied metaphysics and classics. John Locke was educated about medicine and a believer in the experiential approaches of the Scientific Revolution. Year 1666, Locke met the legislator Anthony Ashley Cooper, who later became the first Earl of Shaftesbury. The two grew a strong friendship that soon turned into an even stronger bond, and a year later Locke was selected to be physician to the Shaftesbury’s household. That year he did a hazardous liver operation on Cooper that likely saved his best friend’s life. For the next two decades, Locke became more
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He had a theory, with knowledge from gathered experience. It explained a theory of human knowledge, identity, and selfhood. To Locke, knowledge was not the discovery of anything either inborn or outside of a person, but simply the gathering of “facts” from physical experience. To discover new things beyond the beyond the facts of what we already know and of basic experience, Locke created a method based on the difficult methods of experimental science. He believes that the government is made to protect “life, liberty and estate.” His beliefs passionately influenced the United States’ Declaration of Colonial Rights. His written compositions on religious tolerance was one of the reasons for the separation of church and state or government.
The “Two Treatises of Government” was written in 1690. It had political theories developed and experienced by Locke during his years at exile by Cooper’s side. He wrote about his believes that, when a king loses the consent of the governed, a society may remove him. This is quoted almost precise in Thomas Jefferson’s 1776 Declaration of Independence. In Locke’s “Thoughts Concerning Education” written in 1693, he argued for an increased program and for the students to be treated in a better fashion. These ideas were an enormous influence on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s novel “Emile”
He had a theory, with knowledge from gathered experience. It explained a theory of human knowledge, identity, and selfhood. To Locke, knowledge was not the discovery of anything either inborn or outside of a person, but simply the gathering of “facts” from physical experience. To discover new things beyond the beyond the facts of what we already know and of basic experience, Locke created a method based on the difficult methods of experimental science. He believes that the government is made to protect “life, liberty and estate.” His beliefs passionately influenced the United States’ Declaration of Colonial Rights. His written compositions on religious tolerance was one of the reasons for the separation of church and state or government.
The “Two Treatises of Government” was written in 1690. It had political theories developed and experienced by Locke during his years at exile by Cooper’s side. He wrote about his believes that, when a king loses the consent of the governed, a society may remove him. This is quoted almost precise in Thomas Jefferson’s 1776 Declaration of Independence. In Locke’s “Thoughts Concerning Education” written in 1693, he argued for an increased program and for the students to be treated in a better fashion. These ideas were an enormous influence on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s novel “Emile”