John Locke is considered one of the most important philosophers and political theorists of the 18th century , that he shadows later philosophers. He is known as the “Father of Liberalism” and was one of the early British empiricists. A few of his well-known books are Two Treatises of Government , An Essay Concerning Human Understanding as well as Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
Locke was born on August 29, 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England. His family background was that of a small, middle-class, household. he enrolled at Westminster school when he was 15 years old, where he was tutored by a royalist headmaster , Richard Busby. Busby taught his mentees about the influence of propaganda and how to beware of it , moreover he taught them to think for themselves.
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And it was at oxford where he read the writings which intellectually stimulated and influenced him, these where the writings of Descartes. In 1968 Locke published one of his most notable works known as " two treatises on government" where he discusses and advocates human rights and a constitutional government structure The ideas which he had written in this book played a major law in the Constitution written by the founding fathers of America. Later on in 1690 he wrote "An essay concerning human understanding" where he rejects Descartes' view regarding innate ideas and told his own view on Empiricism, where he believes that knowledge comes from our sensory experience and that all ideas are derived from experience moreover that even all knowledge is derived from experience as well. Locke later moved away to Essex due to poor health issues, where he remained busy publishing other books before his death in