Locke
OriginEngland
Era1632
SchoolEmpiricism
About Locke
The father of liberalism and empirical epistemology. The tabula rasa or blank slate theory of mind. His Two Treatises of Government influenced the American Declaration of Independence. Argued that property rights come from mixing labor with natural resources. Fled to the Netherlands after being suspected of plotting against the king.
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