THE tercentenary of the birth of John Locke occurred on Aug ... including the first edition of Locke's celebrated “Essay on the Human Understanding”, as well as letters from Boyle, Newton ...

As we left the room, I whispered to my son, “Tell your teacher that your father wants to know when she will teach the work of John ... Locke developed his ideas in his “Essay Concerning Human ...

John Locke spent his life trying to understand ... as he recognized the existence of the soul and the social nature and needs of human beings: “Every man has an immortal soul, capable of eternal ...

We know John Locke today as a social and political philosopher ... and overall a meditation on motivation and human nature. Radical for its time, the book prefigures many of today’s educational ...

John Locke (1632–1704 ... second which is most widely read. In it Locke argues that people living without a civil government in an imagined state of nature have certain duties to God not ...

In the summer of 1704, English philosopher John Locke began writing ... that had engulfed Western society when Locke made his most famous arguments for human liberty. The sources of “traditional ...

IT is possible to appreciate the reason for this abridged edition of Locke's great Essay and at ... However well-informed, it is certain, for it is human nature, that the reader will suspect ...

Arguably no philosopher had a greater influence on America’s founding than John Locke ... I think Locke would look at that and be appalled at the erosion of human freedom, human liberty.

But clearer evidence of the elusive nature of socialists’ hold on the ... understanding of the basic purpose of civil society. John Locke provided the point of origin for this viewpoint in ...

English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) lived through one of the most turbulent and divisive periods in British history. At the center of the storm, he believed, was a degraded form of ...