John Locke
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- Of Civil Government (World Philosophers and Their Works)
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (World Philosophers and Their Works)
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Two Treatises of Government (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Two Treatises of Government (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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- Author: John Locke
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John Locke, English rationalist philosopher of the seventeenth century, is best known for his monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which was to furnish basic premises, not only for the coming Age of Reason and the deistic theology upon which many of its ideas were based, but also for the incipient Industrial Revolution with its rising entrepreneur class, and for political revolution in America.
John Locke
Locke was the son of a Puritan attorney of Somerset, also...
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