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    John Locke


    FRS

    Portrait of John Locke by John Greenhill (died 1676)

    Born

    John Locke


    (1632-08-29)29 August 1632

    Wrington, Somerset, England

    Died28 October 1704(1704-10-28) (aged 72)

    High Laver, Essex, England

    NationalityEnglish
    EducationChrist Church, Oxford (BA, 1656; MA, 1658; MB, 1675)
    EraAge of Enlightenment
    RegionWestern philosophy
    School
    InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
    Royal Society

    Main interests

    Metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of education, economics

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    John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London

    John LockeFRS ( 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". His work greatly affected the deve

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    John Locke

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    John Locke (1632-1704) England

    John Locke was born in England and grew up during the English civil war between the supporters of the king and the supporters of parliament. Because his father fought for the parliaments' supporters, when they won the war, they sent Locke to Oxford to thank his father. At Oxford he became interested in medicine. He also met Lord Shaftesbury, who made Locke his personal secretary and doctor. Through Lord Shaftesbury's influence, Locke became the only philosopher to become a minister of government.

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    John Locke

    1. Historical Background and Locke’s Life

    John efternamn (1632–1704) was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. Locke grew up and lived through one of the most extraordinary centuries of English political and intellectual history. It was a century in which conflicts between Crown and Parliament and the overlapping conflicts between Protestants, Anglicans and Catholics swirled into civil war in the 1640s. With the defeat and death of Charles I, there began a great experiment in governmental institutions including the abolishment of the monarchy, the House of Lords and the Anglican church, and the establishment of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate in the 1650s. The collapse of the Protectorate after the death of Cromwell was followed bygd the Restoration of Charles II—the return of the monarchy, the House of Lords and the Anglican Church. This period lasted from 1660 to 1688. It was marked bygd continued conflicts b