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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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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John Rawls influencedBy John Locke
John influencedBy John Locke
subject surface form: John Stuart Mill
Joseph Priestley influencedBy John Locke
Montesquieu influencedBy John Locke
Richard Price influencedBy John Locke
Robert Nozick influencedBy John Locke
Social Statics influencedBy John Locke
subject surface form: United States Declaration of Independence
Voltaire influencedBy John Locke
William Godwin influencedBy John Locke
Age of Enlightenment majorFigure John Locke
Lost notableCharacter John Locke
High Laver notableResident John Locke
High Laver placeOfDeathOf John Locke
Stuart period significantFigure John Locke