John+Locke

media type="file" key="John Locke by walter Goerling.mp3"[|John Locke on Wikipedia] John Locke was a liberal philosopher who believed goverment was created to solve conflicts in civil manner, that it should not have absolute power, and that the mind starts as a blank slate.

From[|Stanaford Onlie encyclopedia]: "John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. Locke grew up and lived through one of the most extraordinary centuries of English political and intellectual history. It was a century in which conflicts between Crown and Parliament and the overlapping conflicts between Protestants, Anglicans and Catholics swirled into civil war in the 1640s. With the defeat and death of Charles I, there began a great experiment in governmental institutions including the abolishment of the monarchy, the House of Lords and the Anglican church, and the establishment of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate in the 1650s. The collapse of the Protectorate after the death of Cromwell was followed by the Restoration of Charles II — the return of the monarchy, the House of Lords and the Anglican Church. This period lasted from 1660 to 1688. It was marked by continued conflicts between King and Parliament and debates over religious toleration for Protestant dissenters and Catholics. This period ends with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in which James II was driven from England and replaced by William of Orange and his wife Mary. The final period during which Locke lived involved the consolidation of power by William and Mary, and the beginning of William's efforts to oppose the domination of Europe by the France of Louis XIV, which later culminated in the military victories of John Churchill — the Duke of Marlborough."

"Locke’s idea about governments—//mainly that they can only exist with the __consent__ of the people//—eventually sowed the seeds for the American Revolution." -UXL Biographies

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." "A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day." -John Locke (1632-1704), recovered from S9.com

Born:1632 Lived during english civil war. Went to Christ Church, Oxford college where, with the beginnings of the English Royal society, he developed a new view on philosophy. He became a doctor of Medicine, though he rarely practiced. (Shaftbury's liver) After he was forced to flee to Holland in 1683, on suspicion of treason, He put greater work into his writing. Upon returning to England in 1688, he quickly published the bulk of his writing, including Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the //Two Treatises of Civil Government//. //Two Treatises of Civil Government//, published in 1689, is one of his most famous works and outlined famous ideas such as the seperation of church and state, and that revolution is a right and sometimes a obligation of people, ideas which influenced the early United States of America. in another famous work, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, he introduced the idea that Human minds started as a blank slate upon which experiences influenced and taught a person what they became. John Locke died in October 28, 1704.