John Locke

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John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher whose ideas on natural rights, government by consent, and the social contract became foundational to modern liberal political thought.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Enlightenment thinker
empiricist philosopher
human
philosopher
political philosopher
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
dateOfBirth 1632-08-29
dateOfDeath 1704-10-28
educatedAt Christ Church, Oxford
Westminster School
ethnicGroup English
familyName John Locke self-linksurface differs
surface form: Locke
fieldOfWork education theory
epistemology
political philosophy
religious philosophy
givenName John
influenced Bill of Rights
surface form: Bill of Rights (United States)

Enlightenment philosophy
James Madison
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Jefferson
United States Constitution
American Declaration of Independence
surface form: United States Declaration of Independence

Voltaire
liberal political thought
influencedBy Isaac Newton
René Descartes
Robert Boyle
Thomas Hobbes
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainInterest government by consent
natural rights
religious toleration
social contract
theory of knowledge
movement classical liberalism
empiricism
liberalism
social contract theory
notableIdea labor theory of property
right of revolution
separation of powers (influence)
tabula rasa
notableWork A Letter Concerning Toleration
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
The Reasonableness of Christianity
Two Treatises of Government
placeOfBirth England
Somerset
Wrington
placeOfDeath England
Essex
High Laver
positionHeld physician
secretary to Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
religion Anglicanism
Protestantism
sexOrGender male

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American Declaration of Independence influencedBy John Locke
subject surface form: United States Declaration of Independence
Age of Enlightenment majorFigure John Locke
David Hume influencedBy John Locke
Stuart period significantFigure John Locke
Francis Bacon influenced John Locke
Voltaire influencedBy John Locke
René Descartes influenced John Locke
Montesquieu influencedBy John Locke
John Locke familyName John Locke self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Locke
Denis Diderot influencedBy John Locke
Baron d'Holbach influencedBy John Locke
Western philosophy hasKeyFigure John Locke
David Home influencedBy John Locke
Empiricism associatedWith John Locke
James Mill influencedBy John Locke
Cartesianism criticizedBy John Locke
Jeremy Bentham influencedBy John Locke
John Rawls influencedBy John Locke
George Berkeley influencedBy John Locke
Novum Organum influenced John Locke
Sir Edward Coke influenced John Locke
Joseph Priestley influencedBy John Locke
Thomas Hobbes influenced John Locke
Francis Hutcheson influencedBy John Locke
William Godwin influencedBy John Locke
Richard Price influencedBy John Locke
John influencedBy John Locke
subject surface form: John Stuart Mill
Social Statics influencedBy John Locke
English Whigs influencedBy John Locke
Alain Locke familyName John Locke
this entity surface form: Locke
High Laver notableResident John Locke
High Laver placeOfDeathOf John Locke
Book I author John Locke
subject surface form: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Book I author John Locke
subject surface form: Book I (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding)
Charles-Louis influencedBy John Locke
subject surface form: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
Book II author John Locke
subject surface form: Book II (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding)