Locke, John

Locke, John
(1632–1704)
   Philosopher.
   Locke was born in Wrington, England, and was educated at the University of Oxford. He is remembered as the author of the famous Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in which he argued that all knowledge is derived from ideas, which emerge either from self-awareness or from sense-experience. Thus he rejected the Platonism of many earlier philosophers as well as the radical doubt of descartes. He also produced The Reasonableness of Christianity in which he maintained that reasonableness was the only correct basis for belief. This aroused the disapproval of Jonathan edwards and paved the way for the later Deists. In his Letters Concerning Toleration, he made a plea for religious toleration for all (except for Roman Catholics and atheists, who were seen as a threat to religious stability). Locke was an important figure in the development of the English empirical philosophical tradition.
   J. Yolton, Locke: An Introduction (1985);
   J. Dunn, Locke (1984).

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