JOHN LOCKE

BY: GROUP 5
 BIOGRAPHY
• Born: August 29, 1632 in Warrington a village in Somerset, England.
• Death: October 28, 1704 in Oates, Essex
• Nationality: English
• Education: University of Oxford,Westminster School
• Areas of interest: political theory, education, toleration theory, and theology

• Influential philosopher and physician John Locke, who had a lot of impact on
Western philosophy,
• Had ideas concerning the natural rights of man and the social contract. His ideas
created controversy in England and were the building blocks of French and US
revolutions. Locke was very influential.
FAMOUS WORKS

• His works are:

• 1689) A Letter Concerning Toleration
• (1690) A Second Letter Concerning Toleration
• (1692) A Third Letter for Toleration
• (1689) Two Treatises of Government
• (1690) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education
• (1695) The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures
• (1695) A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity
PHILOSOPHIES AND BELIEFS
John Locke’s philosophies and beliefs.
PHILOSOPHIES & BELIEFS

• John Locke believed that when one selects a governor for his country he
or she is giving up their natural power. He believed that a community gave
up their natural rights to the government, because they thought the
government could protect their rights in a better way. He also said that if
a government breaks that trust or violates their natural rights they should
be replaced. John Locke also thought that there were some areas that the
government shouldn’t mess with. He thought it was inappropriate for
them to get involved in everything. Locke stated that because God gave
man the ability to think, a well-managed government that can be fair and
respect the people’s natural rights fulfills the purpose of humanity. He
believed that natural rights, their order and their laws are permanent and
that governments are only contributing to that. They contribute if they are
selected well.
TWO TREATIES BY JOHN LOCKE
(1689)
• Locke’s Two Treatises of Government were written in part to
defend armed resistance to the English king in the years
preceding the Glorious Revolution of 1689.
• First treatise is an attack on the theory of absolute
monarchy
• He critizes the theory of Robert Filmer Patriarcha
SECOND TREATY

• men’s move from a state of nature characterized by perfect

freedom and governed by reason to a civil government in
which the authority is vested in a legislative and executive
power
• people are equal and invested with natural rights in a state
of nature in which they live free from outside rule