John Locke

The life and writings of John Locke and his enormous impact on knowledge and knowing, politics, religion, government and revolution in three countries firmly positions him as the most influential figure of the 18th century. He not only originated the concepts and rights that are inherent in American government and the Declaration of Independence, but he also developed influential concepts regarding the relationship of the individual to society (the Social Contract), the essence of knowing and ideas, and helped dismantle the concept of Divine Right. Locke’s concepts of government and politics as expressed in Concerning Civil Government were inherent on the formation of the Declaration of Independence (DOI) and responsible for a whole new form of government, one empowered by the common people, “The DOI, which is often cited by uninformed idiots in the media as a marvel of originality, is nothing but a trite paraphrase of the leading ideas in John Locke” (Plagiarism 1). Locke’s concepts would als

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e a new sensation, as the variation or increase of it; and so introduce a new idea, which depends only on a different motion of the animal spirits in that organ” (An Essay Concerning 1). When it comes to the human mind, knowledge and ideas, Locke’s ideas were also a harbinger of modern psychoanalysis in the sense that he believed that all human beings have the ability to study their own psyche (i.e., being and mind) in order to discover a fuller sense of the self that will produce a more happier individual. As he argued in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into. The understanding, like the eye, while it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object. Whatever be the difficulties that lie in the way of this inquiry; whatever it be that keeps us so much in the dark to ourselves; sure I am that all the light we can let in upon our minds, all the acquaintance we can make with out own understa
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