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The Essential John Locke
by Eric Mack
No single individual is ever the sole founder of any major stance in political philosophy—or in any other field of human inquiry.
For, knowingly or unknowingly, every theorist makes important use of ideas and contentions previously developed by other thinkers. Nevertheless, if one were forced to name the founder of the classical liberal perspective in political thought, one would have to point to the English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704).
When John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, in Wrington, Somerset, England, he entered a world riven by intense religious and political conflict.
John locke philosophy pdf download
This conflict reached its greatest intensity in the Civil Wars of 1641–1649 and the rump Parliament’s trial and execution of Charles I in January 1649. It re-emerged in the political and conspiratorial challenges to Charles II from the mid-1670s to mid-1680s and continued through the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Locke studied at the prestigious Westminst