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    John Locke is known as the father of classical liberalism because of his core political ideas and doctrines are considered to be the makings of constitutional law and Anglo-American jurisprudence. British philosopher John Locke was born on August 29th 1632 in the county of Somerset England. After attending schools in London and Oxford he received his masters of arts from the prestigious Christ college. In 1668 he was elected into the Royal society where he studied medicine and graduated as a physician

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    5 March 28‚ 2012 John Locke John Locke‚ an English philosopher‚ used the idea of natural laws to make vital contributions to society. He worked his way up through Westminster School and Oxford and enrolled in the Church of England. He was interested in science and became one of the best practitioners of his time. With Locke’s connections‚ he met men of England but was also suspected for being disloyal. He went to Holland and returned in 1688‚ after the revolution. Locke made an influence

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    Philosophy MWF 2 PM October 15‚ 2012 John Locke’s Political Influence John Locke is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. One can easily see his tremendous influence on democracies throughout the world‚ especially the United States‚ today. Locke was born during 1632 in Somerset‚ England. He was the son of a Puritan lawyer who fought with the Parliamentarians against the King in the English Civil War. At the age of 14‚ Locke attended Westminster School; and later

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    John Locke was a philosopher and supporter of The Enlightenment whose philosophies served a crucial role in its formation‚ these ideologies fall into three major branches: epistemology‚ political philosophy‚ and religious toleration. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that revolved around the use of reason and progress from the Scientific Revolution to address human problems. Epistemology supported inductive reasoning‚ a form of thinking in which one takes specific details and uses them to

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    John Locke‚ an Englishman who lived from 1632 to 1704‚ promoted some of the most influential ideas of the Enlightenment. He pioneered the idea that humans are naturally good‚ and are corrupted by society or government to becoming deviant. Locke described this idea in hisAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding as the tabula rasa‚ a Latin phrase meaning blank slate. The idea was not original to him‚ however. In fact‚ Locke directly took the idea from a Muslim philosopher from the 1100s‚ Ibn Tufail

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    Karl Knotoff 2/6/2013 Env 115 Professor Barker Air Pollution The Reason this article was chosen is to show the “catch 22” of slowing and hopefully preventing the crisis of air pollution and all other aspects of environmental crisis. This article talks about the prophet of Republicans Ronald Reagan expressing his concerns over air pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gasses. The catch 22 is that in this world of profit margins and marketing schemes we live in

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    and that was John Locke. Government should be run how John Locke argues because‚ the government should be fair‚ run where people have rights and freedoms‚ and provide equality for all. People should be able to control their lives and have a say on

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    John Locke was best known as an advocate of empiricism and for his belief of tabula rasa‚ or the blank slate. In this way his beliefs were similar to those of the behaviorist school of thought. Locke is known as the father of English Empiricism. Empiricism believes that everyone is born with a blank slate that we fill as we experience life. The knowledge that we gain throughout life is due to our experiences‚ not through reasoning or thought. Locke believed that there is only the capacity to have

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    The Influence of John Locke John Locke was someone more than just an ordinary man. He was the son of a country attorney and born on August 29‚ 1632. He grew up during the civil war and later entered the Church of Christ‚ Oxford‚ where he remained as a student and teacher for many years. (Rivitch 23) With a wide variety of political and religious views‚ he expressed most of his personnel views on education and social and political philosophies. Once he noted the five

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    John Locke Questions 1. John Locke describes the “state of nature” as a sort of equality between men. No man has any rights over the other‚ and they can be free in doing what they want. All being able to use the same faculties. Locke also explains that although they are free it does not give them the right to hurt one another because the “natural law” still exists even through the “state of nature”. Locke defines the state of nature as political power. This “state of nature” is basically where humans

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