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1 day ago · John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
1 day ago · But what about the second unalienable right that John Locke wrote in the Declaration of Independence? Principle No. 1: Government exists to protect rights, not to create them. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”. This statement encapsulates the ...
5 days ago · John Locke Bacon, Locke, and Newton—I consider them the three greatest men who have ever lived, without any exception. —Thomas Jefferson, 1789 Many people forget that John Locke was a physician, and many who know that he was a physician presume that his life-long practice of medicine exerted very little influence over his work as a philosopher.
1 day ago · Philosopher John Locke argued that the authority of government stems from a social contract based on natural rights. According to Locke, the authority of government was limited and required the consent of the governed.
4 days ago · Often credited as a founder of modern “liberal” thought, Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious toleration, and the right to revolution that proved essential to both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution that followed.
2 days ago · A significant division, which we find in both old and new accounts—of property as well as territory—originates in the diverging political philosophies of John Locke and Immanuel Kant. Lockean accounts regard property and territorial rights as natural. People may acquire both without the prior existence of an adjudicating political authority.
20 hours ago · This essay is about John Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government” a pivotal work in political theory published in 1689. It discusses how Locke’s second treatise presents the idea that all individuals possess natural rights to life liberty and property challenging the divine right of kings and advocating for government by consent through a social contract.
