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Teacher: Okay Students! Let’s sit down. Today, we’ll gonna learn about John Locke, one of the great philosophers who appeared in enlightenment period. Now, Open your book and open the page 165. As you can see, the page tells about 5Ws of John Locke. Soyeon, Can you read until the end of the page?
Soyeon: 1. Who is John Locke? John Locke was an English and political philosopher born in England. He was born in August 29th, 1632 as the son of judicial officer and died in October 28th, 1704 at the age of 72. As he grew up in a stern family, he got a high level education under strict education system. In 1646, he attend Westminster school, London and Christ church, Oxford. He firstly studied medicine but he decided to turn to philosophy
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People could learn by their experiences and were by nature good.
: 2. What did John Locke do? John Locke has different types of achievements but books and essays are the most known works. He published his major works in 1688, and the most famous pieces are ‘An essay concerning Human Understanding’, and ‘A letter concerning Toleration’. During process, he didn’t received any formal awards. Moreover, his purpose for these were to build a democratic society.
: 3. Why is John Locke a leader? As John Locke greatly admired the scientists, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and Thomas Sydenham, their findings in various areas such as physics, chemistry, and medicine were the inspirations of Johon Locke’s beliefs about human nature and made John Locke to develop further.
John Locke as a leader, his actions were persuasive, passionate, and communicative. The fact that he had many supporters, he took a lot of actions to spread his beliefs, and his action to publishing his works proves he has those leadership qualities. Also, his personal identity as a leader was revolutionary, and a real contribution to philosophy. The reason for both revolutionary and contribution to philosophy was that he was the first philosopher who officially stated the political system ‘democracy’. Therefore, he was against to the original system but made wide path for other