General+Knowledge

=__**General Knowledge**__=
 * Lived from 1632-1704 CE
 * Born in Wrington (village), Somerset (county), England (country)
 * Highly respected scholar
 * "Father of Liberal Philosophy"
 * Major Works
 * //"Two Treatises of Civil Government"// published in the early 1680's
 * "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" published in 1690
 * Establishes the principles for modern Empiricism
 * "He writes that we can be certain that God exists, and be as certain of mortality as we are of mathematics, because we create moral and political ideas" (egs.edu)
 * Challenges the rationalist view of innate ideas
 * //"Some Considerations of the Consequences of Lowering of Interest"// published in 1691
 * "//Some Thoughts Concerning Education"// published in 1693
 * //"Further Considerations"// and //"////The Reasonableness of Christianity"// published in 1695
 * Philosophy
 * All our thoughts and ideas issue from that which we have taken in through the senses
 * Before we perceive anything, our mind is a tabula rasa (empty slate)
 * When we start to sense things (smell, taste, feel, etc.) as infants, __simple ideas of sense__ arise
 * When these single ideas get worked on by thinking, doubt, reasoning and doubting, he calls them __reflection__
 * Went to Oxford to study medicine
 * Became a physician for Lord Ashley in London
 * Parents are Puritans* which influenced his upbringing
 * *-Group of Protestants in the 16th and 17th century
 * "Leader of the Enlightenment Age"
 * Fathered Classical Liberalism
 * Favored Descartes' teachings over Aristotle's
 * Beliefs
 * Equal rights for all and freedom of religion
 * King of England saw it as a challenge to his authority
 * King exiled Locke from England, and Locke lost everything he had worked for
 * "Locke wrote and developed the philosophy that there was no legitimate government under the __divine right of kings theory__." (let.rug.nl)
 * He saw that the reason government is established is to protect the life, liberty and property of a people
 * Government protects the __natural rights*__ of human beings
 * **Used in the Declaration of Independence**
 * Ideas from his philosophy were used by the North American colonies in their revolution from England
 * *- Life, liberty and property
 * We learn through experience
 * Death
 * Lived in Oates in Essex in the home of Sir Francis
 * Died in October
 * Sources
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 * http://www3.niu.edu/acad/psych/Millis/History/2003/locke.htm
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