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John Locke
John Locke was born on August 29. 1632. in Wrington. a small town in the English state of Somerset. He was baptized the same twenty-four hours. Soon after his birth. the household moved to the market town of Pensford. about seven stat mis south of Bristol. where Locke grew up in an old fashioned rock…
Comparing Hobbes and Locke
John Locke
Political Philosophy
Thomas Hobbes
Social contract theorists Thomas Hobbes and John Locke agree that legitimate government comes only from the mutual consent of those governed. Although both were empiricists, the ways by which they came to their conclusions differed wildly, and perhaps as a result their views on the means by which society should be governed also conflicted. This…
Compare and Contrast John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and John Dewey’s Theories of Learning
John Dewey
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Learning
The point of rejecting universal assent is that everyone with a soul, including children and those with intellectual disabilities, can easily perceive innate ideas. Unfortunately, the rationalists failed to provide any explanation for this situation. The rejection of Locke’s use of reason can best be explained through his inference to dispositional accounts. According to him,…
| born | August 29, 1632, Wrington, United Kingdom |
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| died | October 28, 1704, High Laver, United Kingdom |
| description | John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". |
| books | Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, David Hume, René Descartes, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant |
| education | Christ Church (1652–1675), Westminster School |
| quotations | The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. What worries you, masters you. The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.,“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” |
| information | Notable ideas: Liberty, State of nature, Property, Tabula rasa Influenced: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Voltaire, Adam Smith Influenced by: Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton |
