Biography of John Locke (1632 - 1704) Prologue: John Locke, English philosopher, psychologist and educator, was the founder of empiricism, and thus an important pioneer of the philosophy of the Enlightenment. Brought epistemological investigations related to a psychological theory of consciousness, and therefore has become the partner of psychology as a research tool of empirical consciousness. His main research topic is the source, security and scope of human knowledge and the reasons and degrees of belief and opinion ... John Locke, born August 29, 1632 the son of a lawyer in the English Wrington, near Bristol.
John Locke received his philological studies at the Westminster School in London. After graduating, he studied medicine, chemistry and philosophy at Christ Church College, Oxford. He completed his studies with two degrees (Bachelor and Master of Arts) from. He stayed after his studies at Oxford and taught philosophy and classical languages. His knowledge in epistemology and issues of political theory of science and medicine made him an encyclopedic time. Locke was briefly secretary of the British embassy to the Elector of Brandenburg. It was in the period 1667 to 1675 he worked for Anthony Ashley Cooper, later Lord Ashley Earl of Shaftesbury, a consultant and practitioner. In 1668 he was a member of the Royal Society in London.
In 1671 he began his major philosophical work "concering human understanding"in German: Experiments on the human mind. Popular work was published in 1689 until 1690. Since 1672 was John Locke performs various secretarial bodies that came with the mediation of Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury. Shaftesbury's political demise Locke left England and settled in the period from 1675 to 1679 in France. During this time you disagree with some thinkers of his time. Locke took the ideas of numerous awards for his own philosophical work.
John Locke returned to England when Shaftesbury was head of the British cabinet again. Locke in 1683 accompanied Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury to Holland, was exposed as a means of pressure. Shaftesbury was involved in the conspiracy against James II. In Holland, Locke had contact with the doctrine of liberal theology, is not known to the Trinity. In 1689, the anonymously published the book "Epistle of Tolerantia.
He returned in the same year he returned to England, where he was taken in the public and as an official for trade and economic activity was. Until his death, created an extensive body of work. John Locke died on October 28, 1704 in Oates (Essex). John Locke created a whole, which deals with various topics and documents of their status as encyclopedic. His writings cover topics from the fields of philosophy, law and political philosophy, economics, finance, mathematics, medicine, education, theology, politics and the church.
Their religious and political writings have a strong influence on his contemporaries. In his writings, rational, including religious tolerance, separation of powers in the constitutional monarchy, civil liberties and the separation of church and state. Their arguments found their way into the American Declaration of Independence. He extended his work an epistemological empiricism and opposed to rationalism. Locke argued against innate ideas of Descartes and followed the idea of "tabula rasa". Locke looked at the human capacity for knowledge critically and not rely on the more rational approach to reason.
Their religious and political writings have a strong influence on his contemporaries. In his writings, rational, including religious tolerance, separation of powers in the constitutional monarchy, civil liberties and the separation of church and state. Their arguments found their way into the American Declaration of Independence. He extended his work an epistemological empiricism and opposed to rationalism. Locke argued against innate ideas of Descartes and followed the idea of "tabula rasa". Locke looked at the human capacity for knowledge critically and not rely on the more rational approach to reason.
In this critique of knowledge found in Immanuel Kant, a famous successor. However, as John Locke recognized the limitations of human cognition. John Locke, developed an educational concept that the individual education and skills at the heart of the promotion. He called for greater clarity in the knowledge, fun practices and promoting independence. In his philosophy of religion, emphasized the adequacy of reason in theological doctrine. - Protect the political community with the monarch, Obligarch or democratic representation, people from the threat of martial law - Locke argues that the equality and inviolability of person and property of the highest legal protection.
- J. Locke defends the separation of legislative and executive branches. - The people will determine the form of government - can eliminate tyrants - 1689, Locke says in the "Charter on tolerance"for freedom of all religions, as long as the liberal state is not threatened - Atheists are not tolerated in this state, the political theory of John Locke made his mark in spite of systematic failures in the image of the state of liberal-bourgeois right. The American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and the proposed French constitution of 1791 to sit in the formulations of Locke.
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