John Locke

Tags: Philosopher.

John Locke FRS (/ˈlɒk/; 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. 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.

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birth date

1632-08-29

birth place

Kingdom of England, Somerset, Wrington

death date

1704-10-28, 1704-10-29

death place

Kingdom of England, Essex

era

17th-century philosophy, Modern philosophy

influenced

Voltaire, Adam Smith, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Hume, Edmund Burke, George Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine, Founding Fathers of the United States, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Jonathan Edwards (theologian), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, John Toland, Anthony Collins, Francis Hutcheson (philosopher), Gershom Carmichael, Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Mary Astell, Abraham Tucker

influenced by

Cicero, Aristotle, Avicenna, Plato, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Richard Hooker, Thomas Aquinas, Robert Filmer, Hugo Grotius, Polish Brethren, Samuel Rutherford

LCCN Id

n/79/90225

main interest

Economics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Political philosophy, Philosophy of mind

notableIdea

Property, Tabula rasa, Liberty, State of nature

philosophicalSchool

Empiricism, Natural law, Social contract