John Locke FRS (/lk/; 29 August 1632 28 October 1704), was an English philosopher and

physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the
"Father of Classical Liberalism".
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Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following
the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly
affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings
influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American
revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in
the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Locke was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1656
and a master's degree in 1658. He obtained a bachelor of medicine in 1674, having studied
medicine extensively during his time at Oxford and worked with such noted scientists and thinkers
as Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Robert Hooke and Richard Lower