John Locke

1632–1704

4 standalone books

John Locke (1632-1704), widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and the first of the British empiricists, also important to social contract theory. His writings influenced Voltaire, Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, and American revolutionaries, and shaped the American Declaration of Independence.

Born

1632