John Locke Impact On Society

Born August 29, 1632, in Wrington, England, John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, being widely deemed as one of the most influential thinkers during the Age of Enlightenment, often being regarded to as the “Father of Liberalism”. Coming from a Puritan background, both his parents made sure to raise him in the same manner playing a key role in his development. Dying October 28, 1704, Locke’s work was a major building block in the development of epistemology and political writing, influencing numerous of writers and thinkers such as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Years after the death of John Locke many still are determining the true impact he had on modern western philosophy and his theories that molded the thinking of