(1697)
(‘age 65’)
(portrait by ‘godfrey kneller’)
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(english philosopher)
(1632 – 1704)
FRS (/ˈlɒk/; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704)
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[‘john locke’ was an english philosopher/physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the ‘father of liberalism’]
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(considered one of the first of the British ’empiricists’, following the tradition of “Sir 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 ‘Jean-Jacques 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”)
(Locke’s ‘theory of mind’ is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of ‘identity’ and the ‘self’, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as ‘David Hume’, ‘Rousseau’, and ‘Immanuel Kant’)
(‘Locke’ was the first to define the ‘self’ through a continuity of “consciousness”)
(he postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or “tabula rasa”)
(contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception)
(this is now known as ’empiricism’)
(an example of Locke’s belief in ‘Empiricism’ can be seen in his quote, “whatever i write, as soon as i discover it not to be true, my hand shall be the forwardest to throw it into the fire”)
(this shows the ideology of science in his observations in that something must be capable of being tested repeatedly and that nothing is exempt from being disproven)
(challenging the work of others, ‘locke’ is said to have established the method of ‘introspection’, or observing the emotions and behaviours of one’s self)
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