John Locke
By: Cecilia Davenport & Luis Sanchez 3rd period
Philosopher 1632-1704
The English philosopher and political theorist John Locke (1632-1704) laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment. Trained in medicine, he was a key advocate of the empirical approaches of the Scientific Revolution. In his “Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” he advanced a theory of the self as a blank page. His political theory of government by the consent of the governed as a means to protect “life, liberty and estate” deeply influenced the United States’ founding documents. His essays on religious tolerance provided an early model for the separation of church and state.
In his essay Concerning Human Understanding, what ideas did John Locke propose?
John Locke proposes that Everyone's mind originates as a blank slate. He believed that your experiences and what you go through shapes who you are. To John Locke, there is no predetermined, personality or destiny.
John Locke Biography