John Locke

John Locke (August 29 1632 – October 28 1704) was a 17th-century English philosopher concerned primarily with society and epistemology. Locke's notions of a "government with the consent of the governed" and people's natural rights—life, liberty, and property—had an enormous influence on the development of political philosophy. His ideas, which formed the basis for the concepts used in American law and government, allowing the colonists to justify revolution, are often contrasted with his practice of investing in the English slave-trade. Locke's epistemology and philosophy of mind also had a great deal of significant influence well into the Enlightenment period. Locke has been placed in a group called the British Empiricists, which includes David Hume and George Berkeley. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with Thomas Hobbes.

List of major works

• (1689) A Letter Concerning Toleration
• (1690) A Second Letter Concerning Toleration
• (1692) A Third Letter for Toleration
• (1689) Two Treatises of Government
• (1689) 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
• (1697) A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity

Major unpublished or posthumous manuscripts

• (1660) First Tract on Government (or the English Tract)
• (c.1662) Second Tract on Government (or the Latin Tract)
• (1664) Essays on the Law of Nature
• (1667) Essay Concerning Toleration
• (1706) Of the Conduct of the Understanding
• (1707) A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul