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It is unfair to call John Locke a disbeliever, since he called himself a Christian. However, his logical views and quest for tolerance helped many question their beliefs in supernaturalism. His views were also crucial to the concept of separation of church and state and would be studied by the founders of the United States of America. Locke was a religious liberal who became a Unitarian late in life, after being raised within the Anglican church. When considering individuals in such times, it is crucial to consider not only the individuals themselves, but the times in which they live. Within the confines of his own time, and within the confines of the widely-held beliefs of the time, John Locke was a man who held radical beliefs.
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John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was an English
philosopher. In epistemology, Locke has often been classified as a British
Empiricist, along with David Hume and George Berkeley. He is equally important
as a social contract theorist, as he developed an alternative to the Hobbesian
state of nature and argued a government could only be legitimate if it
received the consent of the governed through a social contract and protected
the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. If such consent was
not given, argued Locke, citizens had a right of rebellion.
Locke's ideas had an enormous influence on the development of political
philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment
thinkers and contributors to liberal theory. His writings influenced both
Voltaire and Rousseau and, along with those of many Scottish Enlightenment
thinkers, the American revolutionaries as reflected in the American Declaration
of Independence.
Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of the modern self
and was developed further by David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel
Kant. Locke was the first philosopher to define the self through a continuity
of "consciousness." He also postulated that the mind was a "blank
slate" or tabula rasa; that is, contrary to Cartesian or Christian
arguments, Locke maintained that people are born without any innate ideas.(more)
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“I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, it is a matter of faith, and above reason.”
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Debates about religion often end up becoming debates about reason and
faith — in particular, whether faith is a valid means for acquiring
knowledge and what the limits of reason might be. Religious believers
often say that faith is important, but this seems to be contradicted by
the extent to which they rely on reason. What’s the point of only
using reason when it seems agreeable, then switching to faith as soon
as reason is inconvenient?
JOHN LOCKE ON REASON AND FAITH: The 17th Century Background of American Unitarianism
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A Man of Property
by CARL ROLLYSON
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1: John Locke, Yellowstone, and the Dogma of the Right to Private Property:
Who gave whom the right to create Yellowstone National Park?
by Jim Macdonald
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2: John Locke, Yellowstone, and the Dogma of the Right to Private Property
by Jim Macdonald
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3: John Locke, Yellowstone, and the Dogma of the Right to Private Property
by Jim Macdonald
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