An essay concerning toleration and other writings on law and politics, 1667-1683

Name: An essay concerning toleration and other writings on law and politics, 1667-1683
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780199575732

by Unknown Author

458 pages2010Clarendon PressISBN 9780199575732

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Originally published: 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-446) and indexes.

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Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2010
Pages: 458
ISBN: 9780199575732

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John Locke, widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered the first of the British empiricists, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau and Kant. Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to pre-existing Cartesian philosophy, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke