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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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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
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
