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JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704) is the apostle of the Revolution of 1688, the most moderate and the most successful of all revolutions.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Locke’s breakthrough — unimagined even by Christian thinkers as formidable as Thomas Aquinas — was to combine the classical view of natural law with the concept of inalienable rights. In his Two Treatises of Government (1689), Locke identified these rights as “life, liberty, and property.” He drew from the Scriptures, as well as from Cicero, to arg
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Locke is the most fortunate of all philosophers. He completed his work in theoretical philosophy just at the moment when the government of his country fell into the hands of men who shared his political opinions. Both in practice and in theory, the views which he advocated were held, for many years to come, by the most vigorous and influential poli
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All men, Locke argued, are born equal, with a natural right to life, liberty, and property; to protect those rights, they erect governments by consent. Slavery, for Locke, was no part either of a state of nature or of civil society. Slavery was a matter of the law of nations, “nothing else, but the state of war continued, between a lawful conqueror
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The heirs of Locke are, first Berkeley and Hume; second, those of the French philosophes who did not belong to the school of Rousseau; third, Bentham and the philosophical Radicals; fourth, with important accretions from Continental philosophy, Marx and his disciples.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
John Locke (1632-1704), philosophe anglais du XVIIe siècle, était empiriste. Cela veut dire que, selon lui, les Idées innées n’existent pas et que tout s’acquiert par l’expérience sensible dans l’environnement. Les expériences et sensations de l’enfant vont dès lors s’imprimer sur une « table rase » qui est l’état de départ du développement,
Oliver Houde • L'école du cerveau: De Montessori, Freinet et Piaget aux sciences cognitives (PSY. Théories, débats, synthèses t. 15) (French Edition)
Locke may be regarded as the founder of empiricism, which is the doctrine that all our knowledge (with the possible exception of logic and mathematics) is derived from experience.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
The first comprehensive statement of the liberal philosophy is to be found in Locke, the most influential though by no means the most profound of modern philosophers.