John Locke. First published Sun Sep 2, 2001; substantive revision Tue Jul 10, 2012 John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. Locke's monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to a wide spectrum of topics. It thus tells us in some detail what one can legitimately claim to know and what one cannot. Locke's association with Anthony Ashley Cooper (later the First Earl of Shaftesbury) led him to become successively a government official charged with collecting information about trade and colonies, economic writer, opposition political activist, and finally a revolutionary whose cause ultimately triumphed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. 1.
Historical Background and Locke's Life John Locke (1632–1704) was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. 2. John Locke. Locke - U of Hong Kong. Locke: Hum Und Penn St. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding By John Locke To The Right Honourable Lord Thomas, Earl of Pembroke And Montgomery, Barron Herbert of Cardiff, Lord Ross, of Kendal, Par, Fitzhugh, Marmion, St. Quintin, And Shurland; Lord President of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; And Lord Lieutenant of The County of Wilts, And of South Wales.
My Lord, This Treatise, which is grown up under your lordship's eye, and has ventured into the world by your order, does now, by a natural kind of right, come to your lordship for that protection which you several years since promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Your Lordship's most humble and most obedient servant, John Locke Dorset Court, 24th of May, 1689 Epistle to the Reader I have put into thy hands what has been the diversion of some of my idle and heavy hours. In the Second Edition I added as followeth:--
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