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John Locke’s Early Life and Education
John Locke was born in 1632 in Wrighton, Somerset. His father was a lawyer and small landowner who had fought on the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil Wars of the 1640s. Using his wartime connections, he placed his son in the elite Westminster School.
Did you know? John Locke’s closest female friend was the philosopher Lady Damaris Cudworth Masham. Before she married the two had exchanged love poems, and on his return from exile, Locke moved into Lady Damaris and her husband’s household.
Between 1652 and 1667, John Locke was a student and then lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, where he focused on the standard curriculum of logic, metaphysics and classics. He also studied medicine extensively and was an associate of Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle and other leading Oxford scientists.
John Locke and the Earl of Shaftesbury
In 1666 Locke met the parliamentarian Anthony Ashley Cooper, later the first Earl of Shaftesbury. The two struck up a friendship that blossomed into full patronage, and a year later Locke was appointed
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John Locke
English philosopher and physician (1632–1704)
For other people named John Locke, see John Locke (disambiguation).
John Locke FRS | |
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Portrait of John Locke, | |
| Born | John Locke (1632-08-29)29 August 1632 Wrington, Somerset, England |
| Died | 28 October 1704(1704-10-28) (aged 72) High Laver, Essex, England |
| Education | Christ Church, Oxford (BA, 1656; MA, 1658; MB, 1675) |
| Era | Age of Enlightenment |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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| Influences | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford[9] Royal Society |
Main interests | Metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of education, economics |
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John Locke (; 29 August 1632 (O.S.) – 28 October 1704 (O.S.))[13] was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".[14][15][16] Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, follo
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- Bacon, Locke, and Newton—I consider them the three greatest men who have ever lived, without any exception.
- —Thomas Jefferson, 1789
Many people forget that John Locke was a physician, and many who know that he was a physician presume that his life-long practice of medicine exerted very little influence over his work as a philosopher. In fact, however, there is good reason to think that Locke’s philosophical views were deeply shaped by the practice of medicine. Caring for patients enhanced his respect for the prerogatives of individuals, tempered his trust in the judgments of experts, including government officials, concerning what is best for others, and engrained in him a deeply empirical approach to human knowing and its limitations that pays more attention to real-world results than to theoretical predictions. His writings both draw on his medical practice and offer deep insights on contemporary medicine and biomedical science.
In the breadth and depth of his impact o
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