Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol. He was baptised the same day, as both of his …

Dec 5, 2025 · John Locke was an English philosopher and political theorist who was born in 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England, and died in 1704 in High Laver, Essex. He is recognized as …

Sep 2, 2001 · 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 …

Nov 9, 2009 · The English philosopher and political theorist John Locke (1632-1704) laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment and made central contributions to the development of …

John Locke was among the most famous philosophers and political theorists of the 17 th century. He is often regarded as the founder of a school of thought known as British Empiricism, and …

Dec 10, 2025 · John Locke (1632-1704) was a British philosopher during the Enlightenment, and he influenced many facets of modern Western thought. He is most famously remembered for …

Nov 21, 2023 · John Locke is an English 17th-century philosopher most known for his defence of individual liberty and property rights of citizens. Locke proposed a separation of government …

John Locke’s political philosophy, particularly in his Two Treatises of Government (1689), laid the foundations for liberalism and the modern concept of natural rights.

Nov 9, 2005 · John Locke (1632–1704) is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by …

Aug 31, 2025 · John Locke stands as one of the most influential political philosophers in Western history, whose ideas about natural rights, government by consent, and individual liberty …