JOHN LOCKE

BORN : August 29, 1632, Wrington, United Kingdom .

DIED : October 28, 1704, High Laver, United Kingdom

John Locke, Jr.
Locke was an English philosopher and political theorist who was born in 1632 in
Wrington, Somerset, England, and died in 1704 in High Laver, Essex. He is
recognized as the founder of British empiricism and the author of the first
systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism. John Locke studied
medicine and served as a physician. Locke was mentored by Lord Ashley and Thomas
Sydenham. He was among the most famous philosophers and political theorists of the
17th century. He laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment and made central
contributions to the development of liberalism. Trained in medicine, he was a key
advocate of the empirical approaches of the Scientific Revolution
 CONTRIBUTED
John Locke is regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of modern
times. He founded the modern theory of Liberalism and made an exceptional
contribution to modern philosophical empiricism. He was also influential in the
areas of theology, religious tolerance and educational theory. Locke famously
wrote that man has three natural rights: life, liberty and property. In his
“Thoughts Concerning Education” 1693, Locke argued for a broadened
syllabus and better treatment of students, ideas that were an enormous
influence on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel “Emile” in 1762 .
THE FAMOUS BY JOHN
“What worries you, masters you.”

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another
in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have
poisoned the fountain.”

“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but
himself.”
 JOHN’S POSITIVE IMPACT
John Locke is regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of modern times.
He founded the modern theory of Liberalism and made an exceptional contribution to
modern philosophical empiricism. He was also influential in the areas of theology,
religious tolerance and educational theory. His political theory of government by the
consent of the governed as a means to protect the three natural rights of “life, liberty
and estate” deeply influenced the United States' founding documents. His essays on
religious tolerance provided an early model for the separation of church and state.