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Locke, John
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...John Locke (lŏk), 1632–1704, English philosopher...Knowledge (1971); J. W. Gough, ed., John Locke's Political Philosophy; Eight Essays...Historically Considered (1977); R. W. Grant, John Locke's Liberalism (1987)....
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social contract
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......Hobbes (in the Leviathan, 1651) and John Locke, assumes that men at first lived...and safety of the organized state. Locke made the social contract the basis...reflect the will of the people. Like Locke, the French philosopher Jean Jacques......
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liberalism
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......individual freedom was the Englishman John Locke (1689). From this period on the...David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill mark the height of such...classic works of liberalism include J. Locke, Second Treatise on Government......
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natural rights
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......violated by anyone or by any society. Perhaps the most famous formulation of this doctrine is found in the writings of John Locke. Locke assumed that humans were by nature rational and good, and that they carried into political society the same rights......
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Stillingfleet, Edward
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......English prelate and author. A fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, he became (1657...The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr. Locke's Letter (1697), in which he criticized John Locke for undermining the Trinity. An edition of......
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children's literature
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......classic for both children and adults, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678...Mother Goose rhymes was published in 1765 by John Newbery, an English author and bookseller...literature, partly under the influence of Locke and Rousseau, had again become didactic......
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Declaration of Independence
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......followed the leadership of John Hancock, John Adams, and Samuel Adams in demanding...resolution of independence. On June 11, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas...had been held by, among others, John Locke, Emerich de Vattel, and Jean Jacques......
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Hume, David
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......friend of Jean Jacques Rousseau, to whom he later gave refuge in England. In philosophy Hume pressed the analysis of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of skepticism for which he is famous. He could see no more reason for hypothesizing......
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Jefferson, Thomas
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......except for minor alterations by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin and some...political theorists, particularly John Locke, and to French and other continental...His unsuccessful attempt, with John Adams, to negotiate a trade treaty......
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rationalism
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......of knowledge. René Descartes, G. W. von Leibniz, and Baruch Spinoza all represent the rationalist position, and John Locke the empirical. Immanuel Kant in his critical philosophy attempted a synthesis of these two positions. More loosely......