John Locke And His Writing Research Paper
By: Brianna Lewis
Honors English III
Ms. Laroche
March 28-2015

John Locke was an influential English philosopher during the enlightenment age. John Locke was born August 29 1632 in wrington Somerset England. His parents were puritan which lead him to grown up in a puritan household. His father was a country lawyer who also served in the military, which lead him to have the best of education. He attended Westminster school in London in 1647 then he attended Christ church in Oxford. He had trouble following the curriculum that was being taught to him which lead him to wonder off and stray into modern philosophy instead of the original curriculum he was suppose to learn. One of his friends that were taking medicine introduced him to it then he found his newfound passion. He begins living though just his mind. He was the very first person back then to identify them though consciousness. He then went to university of Oxford and study medicine and lectured on Greek, moral and rhetoric, which lead to a lot of his writing and his outlook on political disputes. Locke became friends with English statesman Anthony Cooper, Shaftesbury who was his adviser and physician. He became a very influential English philosopher with his writing topics being political philosophy, epistemology and also education. He founded the school of empiricism. Locke's Theory of empiricism emphasized the importance of experience of senses in pursuit of knowledge rather than speculation or reasoning. Francis the early part of the 17th century developed the doctrine of empiricist, but John's organized his ideas using in articles. He attempted to overrule the popular outlook, which had long distinguished history. He wanted knowledge gained through experience rather then the notion that experience provides through knowledge. “Locke theory of knowledge could be more favorably interpreted so as to set us on the road to a different destination, one more palatable than the belief that, as one America Indian religion expresses it “when I die, the world ends"."(Burke, 147) Locke follows Descartes lead in searching for minimal starting points on which to build a sound theory of knowledge. He then was set that there were three parts of knowledge, which were intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive. All, which was based on his ideas. In John Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding”,

John Locke also wrote two other treaties after he wrote his essay. He then went back to England to view the opposition to the Roman Catholicism favored by the English Monarchy at that time, and published more work. He wrote A Letter Concerning Toleration, The Reasonableness of Christianity and he also wrote some Thoughts Concerning Education. In 1638-1688 he lived in Holland and started to follow Glorious Revolution in 1688. Locke then moved back to England once again, the new king William III point him as the board of trade in 1696. Which that fell short because in 1700 Locke begin seriously ill and had to step down from his position. Four years later in 1704 on October 28 he died in Oates.

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John Locke was an influential English philosopher during the enlightenment age. John Locke was born August 29 1632 in wrington Somerset England. His parents were puritan which lead him to grown up in a puritan household. His father was a country lawyer who also served in the military, which lead him to have the best of education. He attended Westminster school in London in 1647 then he attended Christ church in Oxford. He had trouble following the curriculum that was being taught to him which lead him to wonder off and stray into modern philosophy instead of the original curriculum he was suppose to learn. One of his friends that were taking medicine introduced him to it then he found his newfound passion. He begins living though just his mind. He was the very first person back then to identify them though consciousness. He then went to university of Oxford and study medicine, which lead to a lot of his writing and his outlook on political disputes He became a very influential English philosopher with his writing topics being political philosophy, epistemology and also education. He founded the school of empiricism. Locke's Theory of empiricism emphasized the importance of experience of senses in pursuit of knowledge rather than speculation or reasoning. Francis the early part of the 17th century developed the doctrine of empiricist, but John's organized his ideas using in articles. He attempted to overrule the popular outlook, which had long distinguished history. He wanted knowledge gained through experience rather then the notion that experience provides through knowledge. “Locke theory of knowledge could be more favorably interpreted so as to set us on the road to a different destination, one more palatable than the belief that, as one America Indian religion expresses it “when I die, the world ends"."(Burke, 147) Locke follows Descartes lead in searching for minimal starting points on which to build a sound theory of knowledge. He then was set that there were three parts of knowledge, which were intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive. All, which was based on his ideas. In John Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, ha

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