Philosopher · Early modern period · England
John Locke
1632–1704
English thinker whose Essay Concerning Human Understanding made him the founder of British empiricism, and whose Two Treatises justified the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He taught that the mind begins as a blank slate. He lived 1632 to 1704.
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- Born
- 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, John Locke
- Died
- 1704, Essex, England.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, John Locke
- School
- Empiricism.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, John Locke
- Known for
- Tabula rasa, the mind as blank at birth; natural rights to life, liberty, and property; and the right of revolution.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, John Locke
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