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John Locke PresentationBy Tony Gengo

All mankindbeing all equaland independent, no one ought

to harm another in his life,health, liberty or possessions.-

Locke

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Background events duringLockes Life

The Crown and Parliament in Englandwere in feud during a good part ofhis life.

Cromwells Puritan Republic, havingno monarchy at all.

Glorious Revolution

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Early Life of Locke

- John Locke was born in Wrington, England in1632. He died in Essex in 1704.

- His mother died when he was an infant, andhis father, too, shortly after.

- He went to school at the Westminster schoolin 1646 and to the University of Oxford in1652.

- His early training consisted of the classics,

and his later training consisted ofmedicine and experimental science.- Elector of Brandenburg.- Royal Society

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Essay Concerning HumanUnderstanding

- 1690

- Locke tried to figure out what theselimits are.

- tabula rasa

- This essay became a great tool of hisoutstanding legacy since itdiscussed the origin, nature, andlimits of human knowledge.

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Letter Concerning Toleration

1689

Government existed to preserveproperty, not to force religiousdecisions on the governed.

Toleration was a problem for Locketowards the Christians

Thanks to Lockes work in the 17thcentury, religious toleration isextended to a lot of religious

groups today.

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Two Treatises ofGovernment

published in 1690.

In this work he formed the basis forconstitutional democracy.

natural law and natural rights.

Night-watchmen Theory ofGovernment

The government and the governedhad a social contract

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Beliefs of Locke

rejected the idea ofdivine right monarchy

defended the right ofrevolution

separation of powers

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How Lockes ideas differed withThomas Hobbess beliefs

1588-1679 Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian

War. Leviathan

Humans were only portrayed in amechanical way in society.

Human beings only existed, he said, to meetthe needs of daily life.

Hobbes believed that a commonwealthcould be established only if humans hadtheir free exercises limited.

absolutist government!

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Lockes influences

Descartes and Bacon

He influenced Jefferson in the AmericanRevolution

He influenced France in the FrenchRevolution and in the Declaration ofthe Rights of Man.

The consent of the governed, the socialcontract, and the right of revolutionsconcepts

Declaration of Independence, Bishop

George Berkeley, David Hume

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