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John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was a seventeenth-century Englishphilosopher and social activist concerned primarily with governance, political theory, epistemology,and religious tolerance.
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His political writings provide a pivotal philosophical defense for modern democratic institutions. As a philosopher, he was an early proponent of Empiricism. Locke also made contributions in the fields of theology, education, and economics.
Though Thomas Hobbes and especially Francis Bacon had pioneered the empirical method before him, John Locke is considered the first of the three major British Empiricists along with George Berkeley and David Hume. Locke is known for his rejection of the theory of innate ideas in favor of an emphasis on the role of sense perception, and for the expression “tabula rasa” that is associated with this position.
Locke was an important political thinker, whose Second Treatise on Government is credited with influencing Thomas Jefferson'