Father: John Locke Sr.
Mother: Agnes Keene.
Girlfriend: Damaris Cudworth.
Date of Birth: 29 August 1632.
Birth Place: Wrington, Somerset, England.
Date of Death: 28 October 1704 (aged 72).
Death Place: Essex, England.
Cause of Death: Unspecified.
Remains/Buried: All Saints Churchyard, High Laver, Essex, England.
Race or Ethnicity: White.
Nationality: British.
Occupation: Philosopher.
Region: Western Philosophy.
Education: Westminster School, University of Oxford, Christ Church, Oxford.
Influenced By: Cicero, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Grotius, Samuel Rutherford, Hooker, Robert Filmer, Hobbes.
Influenced: David Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Berkeley, Burke, Paine, Smith, Rousseau, La Mettrie, Toland, Carmichael.
Main Interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Education, Economics.
Notable Ideas: Tabula rasa, "Government with the consent of the governed", State of Nature, Rights of Life, Liberty and Property.
Major Writing: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690, philosophy), Some Considerations of the Consequences of Lowering Interest (1691), Further Considerations (1695), The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695, religion).
Father of Classical Liberalism John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October
1704) was an English philosopher and political theorist. He is
considered one of the first British empiricists of the tradition of Francis Bacon.
Locke also devoted an equal contribution to the social contract theory.
His work kept a great impact on the development of epistemology and
political philosophy. He was born in Wrington, Somerset, near Bristol.
His father, John Locke Sr. was a lower and his mother Agnes Keene. In 1647,
Locke attended the prestigious Westminster School in London. In 1656, he
was awarded a bachelor’s degree and in 1658, a master’s degree. In
1672, He was involved in politics. He acquired a bachelor of medicine in
1674 from Oxford. In 1675, Locke spent his days travelling across France
and returned back to London in 1679. In 1683, He moved to the Netherlands.
Between 1690 to 1695, he published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690, philosophy), Some Considerations of the Consequences of Lowering Interest (1691), Further Considerations (1695), The Reasonableness of Christianity
(1695, religion); some important book that made him a timeless hero. On
28 October 1704, John Locke died in Essex, England and he was buried
at All Saints Churchyard, High Laver in Essex, England.
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