John Locke
John Locke (1632 CE–1704 CE) was an English philosopher and physician who pioneered modern empiricism and political liberalism through his landmark texts Two Treatises of Government and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. By rejecting the divine right of kings, Locke argued that political authority is legitimate only if it protects the inherent natural rights of life, liberty, and property, while his epistemological work conceptualized the human mind as a tabula rasa shaped entirely by experience.
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- No man's knowledge here can go...
- The mind is furnished with ideas by...
- Let us then suppose the mind to be,...
- The state of nature has a law of...
- Government has no other end but the...
- Where there is no law, there is no...
- The end of law is not to abolish or...
- New opinions are always suspected,...
- Reading furnishes the mind only...
- Education begins the gentleman, but...
- Parents wonder why the streams are...
- As the state of health is what...