12 Facts About J Locke

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

In 1647, J Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London under the sponsorship of Alexander Popham, a member of Parliament and John Sr.

In London, J Locke resumed his medical studies under the tutelage of Thomas Sydenham.

Around this time, most likely at Shaftesbury's prompting, J Locke composed the bulk of the Two Treatises of Government.

Michael Zuckert has argued that J Locke launched liberalism by tempering Hobbesian absolutism and clearly separating the realms of Church and State.

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Brewer likewise argues that J Locke actively worked to undermine slavery in Virginia while heading a Board of Trade created by William of Orange following the Glorious Revolution.

Unlike Thomas Hobbes, J Locke believed that human nature is characterised by reason and tolerance.

From this premise, understood as a labour theory of value, J Locke developed a labour theory of property, whereby ownership of property is created by the application of labour.

Additionally, J Locke advocated a sense of piety out of gratitude to God for giving reason to men.

Unlike some of his contemporaries, J Locke took care to catalogue and preserve his library, and his will made specific provisions for how his library was to be distributed after his death.

The Bodleian holds a copy of Robert Boyle's General History of the Air with corrections and notes Locke made while preparing Boyle's work for posthumous publication.

Locke e 18 includes some of Locke's thoughts on the Glorious Revolution, which Locke sent to his friend Edward Clarke but never published.