Locke

John Locke (1632-1704) was a British empiricist philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher.

Locke is probably best known for his anti-authoritarian, humanist political philosophy, which inspired the American revolutionary ideology.

Locke's epistemology was partly a response to Descartes' insistence upon the rationalist supremacy of innate ideas. Locke countered with the concept of the tabula rasa – the mind as a blank slate that is writ upon by experience.

Links: Works by John Locke at Project Gutenberg : Free, full-text works by John Locke : John Locke Manuscripts : Essay Concerning Human Understanding : Second Treatise of Government : John Locke’s Theory of Knowledge : Locke SEP : John Locke Bibliography :

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