A collection of the works by English philosopher John Locke, who contributed to the fields of epistemology, political philosophy, and education. With influential works such as 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' and 'Two Treatises of Government, ' Locke's ideas were foundational to the Enlightenment and had a significant impact on subsequent Western philosophy.
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) was the grandson of a founder and leader of the English Whigs, and was tutored by John Locke. Shaftesbury rote one of the most intellectually influential works in English of the 18th century, the Characteristicks. https://t.co/KgLP59ICGF
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"Father of Liberalism" John Locke, author of "Two Treatises of Government," among other works of republicanism, was born #OTD in 1632. Locke's oeuvre interrogated the limits of human understanding. Peter Gibbon on “Discovering Childhood”: https://t.co/Yq1DXqXnmd https://t.co/DzlYIKJjiS