About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Aaron Smith (conspirator), Algernon Sidney, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, Baillie of Jerviswood, Bridget Bendish, Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven, Edward Hungerford (Hungerford Market), Edward Norton (conspirator), Elizabeth Gaunt, Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville, Francis Pemberton, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville, George Speke, Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, Henry Cornish, Hugh Speke, James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, James Holloway (conspirator), John Ayloffe, John Cochrane (conspirator), John Coke (died 1692), John Fitzwilliam (divine), John Hampden (1653 1696), John Locke, John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace, John Owen (theologian), John Trenchard (politician), John Wildman, Matthew Mead (minister), Nathaniel Wade, Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, Paul Foley (ironmaster), Rachel Wriothesley, Lady Russell, Richard Nelthorpe, Richard Rumbold, Robert Ferguson (minister), Robert Sawyer (Attorney General), Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 1st Baronet, Stephen Lobb, Thomas Armstrong (politician), Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, William Carstares, William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick, William Kiffin, William Russell, Lord Russell. Excerpt: John Locke FRS (; 29 August 1632 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence. Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau and Kant. Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to pre-existing Cartesian philosophy, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception. Locke's father, also called John, was a country lawyer and clerk to the Justices of the Peace in Chew Magna, who had served as a captain of cavalry for the Parliamentarian forces during the early part of the English Civil War. His mother was Agnes Keene. Both parents were Puritans. Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about twelve miles from Bristol. He was baptised the same day. Soon after Locke's birth, the family moved to the market town of Pensford, about seven miles south of Bristol, where Locke grew up in a rural Tudor house in Belluton. In 1647, Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London under the sponsorship of Alexander Popham, a member of Parliament and his father's former
