Biography 

•  John Locke was an English Philosopher whose ideas had a large influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy.

•   He lived from 1632-1704,
•   He was also know as an influential, enlightend thinker. 
•   He went to higher level schooling (Oxford), and got a degree in medicine. Mr. Locke served as Lord Ashley's ( the first Earl of Shaftesbury) personal physician. 
• He continued studying medicine  until Lord Ashley's liver had an infection. Lord Ashley had an operation. Afterward, Lord Ashley became chancellor.
•  Locke moved to the Netherlands. That's where he began writing.  He didn't return to Britain until after one of his books was writte (Glorious Revolution).
• John Locke was one of the greatest philosophers in europe at the end of the 17th century
• He went to visit Paris in 1672
• He returned to England in 1689, and continued writing
• He wrote about things like human understanding, Natural law and rights, and  education.
• He wrote an essay called "Two Treaties of civil government" they were written about the plots against Charles II 
• He died on October 28th 1704, and was buried in a church yard of high laver.

     Philosophy 

• John Locke focused his main beleifs and ideas into four books addressing philosophy. These books are all grouped together is an essay titled "An Essay Of Human Understanding".
• The main idea of these four books is to find the limits of human understanding and to discover where the ideas and knowledge come from. 
  • The first of these books addresses the origin of which we obtain our innate notions. This could be pictured as our thoughts, ideas, and knowledge.
  • This book mainly addresses the fact that we are born without any understanding or knowledge of ourselves or our world.
    • Locke justifies this by saying that "If we were born with innate ideas, we would be conscious of having them. But it is an undeniable fact that children, savages, the unlearned, are not conscious of having innate ideas; they acquire knowledge during the course of a lifetime. It is impossible that anyone should have knowledge of something of which he is not conscious. 
    • Locke also says that when we are born, we are a clean sheet or blank paper and all of our experiences afterward define our knowledge.
• • The second book concerns ideas.
    • The general meaning of this book is that ideas are the product of knowledge.
    • Because of this, according to what the first book says, our ideas are drawn from our experiences and nature.
    • Locke also tells us that there are two kinds of experiences. The first of the two is sensation, which consists of things that occur externally, outside of our own minds and beings. The second type of experience is reflection, which consists of the experiences that occur within our own being. One example of reflection would be getting hungry, which forces you to eat.
    • Locke also adresses the thought that we are born with the ability to process and manipulate the information that we receive. This is not to say that we are born with ideas, just the brain power and innate ability to process them.
  • In his third book, Locke addresses language
    • The basic idea of book three is the relationship between ideas and words.
      • Locke describes this relationship as abstract.
    • This relationship between language and ideas is very unusual because, if you think about it, we are  making natural thoughts into words, which is completely unnatural.
  • In his fourth book, Locke addresses the idea of possible knowledge
    • The main idea of this is; what we can and cannot possibly know.
      • This does not simply mean what we do and do not know, but what the human mind is capable of understanding.
      • For example, you could be the smartest person in the world, but you would still not know everyting, simply because there are things in the universe that humans cannot understand. 

 Quotes

• " To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."
• " All mankind... being all equal and independentno one ought to harm another in him life, health, Liberty or possession."
• " All wealth is the product of labor."
• " Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."
•  " Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
• " An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every was invariable; A villain, like the beam of balance os always varying, upwards and downwards."
• "There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse"
• "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

Quotes on John Locke

    " John Locke was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Locke on Public Education

One of loches most important ideas is his philosophy was his ideas on education. His general idea is that all indaviduals should be taught to the extent of their learning capabilities. In this circumstance, I think he would have agreed with No Child Left Behind. Locke also said that the main goal of learning is to get to a state where we can serve our country the the fullist. I am not so sure, because of this that he would have agreed with No Child Left Behind because he would see mentaly challanged people as a burrden on society, and therefor could not help their country.

John Locke on Euthinasia

The way john locke sees Euthinasia, it wouldn't be legal. in his theories of religon and human nature, he says that we were created by God. and God is the only one who can decide our fates."he has no liberty to destory himself,or so much as any creature in his possesion, yet when someone nobler use than its bare possesion calls for it. "  so muder and suicde would really contradict this theory. he would say that we all have a right to life, and no one is allowed to take that away. and no one should be able to violate that.

Locke on Nuclear Power

Because Locke lived in the 1600's, before nuclear power was descovered, he didn't have any direct feelings towards it. However, from his teachings and philosophical beleifs, I could say that Locke would probably agree with nuclear power. I can say this because his entire idea was that humans should persue knowledge. Nuclear power is one of the first steps into expanding our knowledge to an entirely new idea.  

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