See also:JOHN See also:LOCKE (1632-1704)
, See also:English philosopher, was See also:born at Wrington, to m
.
W. of Belluton, in See also:Somersetshire, on the 29th of See also:August 1632, six years after the See also:death of See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon, and three months before the See also:birth of See also:Spinoza
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His See also:father was a small landowner and See also:attorney at Pensford, near the See also:northern boundary of the See also:county, to which neighbourhood the See also:family had migrated from See also:Dorsetshire See also:early in that See also:century
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The See also:elder See also:Locke, a strict but genial Puritan, by whom the son was carefully educated at See also:home, was engaged in the military service of the See also:parliamentary party
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" From the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that I knew anything," Locke wrote in 166o, " I found myself in a See also:storm, which has continued to this time." For fourteen years his See also:education, more or less interrupted, went on in the rural home at Belluton, on his father's little See also:estate, See also:half a mile from Pensford, and 6 m. from See also:Bristol
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In 1646 he entered See also:Westminster School and remained there for six years
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Westminster was uncongenial to him
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Its memories perhaps encouraged the See also:bias against public See also:schools which after-wards disturbed his philosophic See also:calm in his Thoughts on Education
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In 1652 he entered See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, then under See also:John See also:Owen, the Puritan See also:dean and See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university
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Christ Church was Locke's occasional home for See also:thirty years
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For some years after he entered, Oxford was ruled by the See also:Independents, who, largely through Owen, unlike the Presbyterians, were among the first in See also:England to See also:advocate genuine religious See also:toleration
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But Locke's hereditary sympathy with the Puritans was gradually lessened by the intolerance of the Presbyterians and the fanaticism of the Independents
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He had found in his youth, he says, that " what was called See also:general freedom was general bondage, and that the popular assertors of See also:liberty were the greatest engrossers of it too, and not unfitly called its keepers." And the See also:influence of the liberal divines of the Church of England afterwards showed itself in his spiritual development
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Under Owen scholastic studies were maintained with a formality and dogmatism unsuited to Locke's See also:free inquisitive See also:temper
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The aversion to them which he expressed showed thus .early an innate disposition to See also:rebel against empty verbal reasoning
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He was not, according to his own See also:account of himself to See also:Lady See also:Masham, a hard student at first
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He sought the See also:company of pleasant and witty men, and thus gained knowledge of See also:life
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He took the See also:ordinary See also:bachelor's degree in 1656, and the See also:master's in 1658
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In See also:December r66o he was serving as See also:tutor of Christ Church, lecturing in See also:Greek, See also:rhetoric and See also:philosophy
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At Oxford Locke was nevertheless within reach of liberal intellectual influence tending to promote self-education and strong individuality
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The metaphysical See also:works of See also:Descartes had appeared a few years before he went to Oxford, and the Human Nature and See also:Leviathan of See also:Hobbes during his under-See also:graduate years
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It does not seem that Locke read extensively, but he was attracted by Descartes
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The first books, be told Lady Masham, which gave him a relish for philosophy, were those of this philosopher, although he very often differed from him
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At the Restoration potent influences were See also:drawing Oxford and England into experimental inquiries
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Experiment in physics became the See also:fashion
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The Royal Society was then founded, and we find Locke experimenting in See also:chemistry in 1663, also in See also:meteorology, in which he was particularly interested all his life
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Fro
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Time locks
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The restraints of a professional career were not suited to Locke
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There is a surmise that early in his Oxford career he contemplated taking orders in the Church of England
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His religious disposition attracted him to See also:theology
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Revulsion from the dogmatic temper of the Presbyterians, and the unreasoning See also:enthusiasm of the Independents favoured sympathy afterwards with See also:Cambridge Platonists and other liberal See also:Anglican churchmen
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Whithcote was his favourite preacher, and See also:close intimacy with the See also:Cudworth family cheered his later years
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But, though he has a See also:place among See also:lay theologians, dread of ecclesiastical impediment to free inquiry, added to strong inclination for scientific investigation, made him look to See also:medicine as his profession, and before 1666 we find him practising as a physician in Oxford
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Nevertheless, although known among his See also:friends as " See also:Doctor Locke," he never graduated in medicine
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His See also:health was uncertain, for he suffered through life from chronic See also:consumption and See also:asthma
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A fortunate event soon withdrew him from the medical profession
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Locke early showed an inclination to politics, as well as to theology and medicine
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As early as 1665 he diverged for a See also:short time from medical pursuits at Oxford, and was engaged as secretary to See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Vane on his See also:mission to the Elector of See also:Brandenburg
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Soon after his return in 1666 the incident occurred which determined his career
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See also:Lord See also:Ashley, afterwards first See also:earl of See also:Shaftesbury, had come to Oxford for his health
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Locke was introduced to him by his physician, Dr See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas
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This was the beginning of a lasting friendship, sustained by See also:common sympathy with liberty—See also:civil, religious and philosophical
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In 1667 Locke moved from Christ Church to See also:Exeter See also:House, Lord Ashley's See also:London See also:residence, to become his confidential secretary
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Although he retained his studentship at Christ Church, .and occasionally visited Oxford, as well as his patrimony at Belluton, he found a home and shared See also:fortune with Shaftesbury for fifteen years
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Locke's See also:commonplace books throw welcome See also:light on the See also:history of his mind in early life
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A See also:paper on the " See also:Roman See also:Commonwealth" which belongs to this See also:period, expresses convictions about religious liberty and the relations of See also:religion to the See also:state that were modified and deepened afterwards; objections to the sacerdotal conception of See also:Christianity appear in another See also:article; short See also:work is made of ecclesiastical claims to See also:infallibility in the See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of Scripture in a third; a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of utilitarian See also:ethics, wider than that of Hobbes, is suggested in a See also:fourth
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The most significant of 'those early revelations is the See also:Essay concerning Toleration (1666), which anticipates conclusions more fully argued nearly thirty years later
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The Shaftesbury connexion must have helped to See also:save Locke from those idols of the " Den " to which professional life and narrow experience is exposed
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It brought him into contact with public men, the springs of See also:political See also:action and the duties of high See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office
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The place he held as Shaftesbury's adviser is indeed the outstanding circumstance in his See also:middle life
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Exeter House afforded every opportunity for society
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He became intimate among others with the illustrious See also:Sydenham; he joined the Royal Society and served on its See also:council
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The See also:foundation of the monumental work of his life was laid when he was at Exeter House
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He was led to it in this way
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It was his See also:habit to' en-courage informal reunions of his intimates, to discuss debatable questions in See also:science and theology
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One of these, in the See also:winter of 167o, is historically memorable
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" Five or six friends," he says, met in his rooms and were discussing " principles of morality and religion
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They found themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that arose on every See also:side." Locke proposed some See also:criticism of the necessary " limits of human understanding " as likely to open a way out of their difficulties
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He undertook to See also:attempt this, and fancied that what he had to say might find sufficient space on " one See also:sheet of paper." What was thus " begun by See also:chance, was continued by entreaty, written by incoherent parcels, and after See also:long intervals of neglect resumed again as See also:humour and occasions permitted." At the end of nearly twenty years the issue was given to the See also:world as Locke's now famous Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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The fall of Shaftesbury in 1675 enabled Locke to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from English politics
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He found a See also:retreat in See also:France, where he could unite calm reflection upon the legitimate operations of " human understanding " with See also:attention to his health
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He spent three years partly at See also:Montpellier and partly in See also:Paris
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His See also:journals and commonplace books in these years show the Essay in preparation
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At Paris he met men of science and letters—See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Guenellon, the well-known See also:Amsterdam physician; Ole Romer, the Danish astronomer; Thoynard, the critic; Melchisedech Thevenot, the traveller; See also:Henri Justel., the jurist; and See also:Francois Bernier, the expositor of Gassendi
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But there is no mention of See also:Malebranche, whose Recherche de la verite had appeared three years before, nor of See also:Arnauld, the illustrious See also:rival of Malebranche
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Locke returned to London in 1679
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Reaction against the See also:court party had restored Shaftesbury to See also:power
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Locke resumed his old confidential relations, now at See also:Thanet House in Aldersgate
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A period of often interrupted leisure for study followed
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It was a time of plots and counterplots, when England seemed on the brink of another civil See also:war
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In the end Shaftesbury was committed to the See also:Tower, tried and acquitted
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More insurrectionary plots followed in the summer of 1682, after which, suspected at home, the versatile statesman escaped to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and died at Amsterdam in See also:January 1683
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In these two years Locke was much at Oxford and in See also:Somerset, for the later movements of Shaftesbury lid not commend themselves to him
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Yet the See also:government had their eyes upon him
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" John Locke lives a very cunning unintelligible life here," Prideaux reported from Oxford in 1682
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" I may confidently affirm," wrote John See also:Fell, the dean of Christ Church, to Lord See also:Sunderland, " there is not any one in the See also:college who has heard him speak a word against, or so much as censuring, the government; and, although very frequently, both in public and private, discourses have been purposely introduced to the disparagement of his master, the earl of Shaftesbury, he could never be provoked to take any See also:notice, or discover in word or look the least concern; so that I believe there is not in the world such a master of taciturnity and See also:passion." Unpublished See also:correspondence with his Somerset friend, See also:Edward See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke of Chipley, describes Locke's life in those troubled years
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It also reveals the opening of his intimate intercourse with the Cudworth family, who were friends of the Clarkes, and connected by birth with Somerset
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The letters allude to toleration in the state and comprehension in the church, while they show an indifference to theological See also:dogma hardly consistent with an exclusive connexion with any See also:sect
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In his fifty-second See also:year, in the gloomy autumn of 1683, Locke retired to Holland, then the See also:asylum of eminent persons who were elsewhere denied liberty of thought
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Descartes and Spinoza had speculated there; it had been the home of See also:Erasmus and Grains; it was now the See also:refuge of See also:Bayle
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Locke spent more than five years there; but his (unpublished) letters show that See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile sat heavily upon him
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Amsterdam was his first Dutch home, where he lived in the house of Dr Keen, under the assumed name of Dr See also:Van der See also:Linden
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For a time he was in danger of See also:arrest at the instance of the English government
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After months of concealment he escaped; but he was deprived of his studentship at Christ Church by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and Oxford was thus closed against him
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Holland introduced him to new friends
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The See also:chief of these was See also:Limborch, the successor of See also:Episcopius as Remonstrant See also:professor of theology, lucid, learned and tolerant, the friend of Cudworth, See also:Whichcote. and More
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By Limborch he was introduced to Le Clerc, the youthful representative of letters and philosophy in Limborch's college, who had escaped from See also:Geneva and Calvinism to the milder See also:atmosphere of Holland and the See also:Remonstrants
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The Bibliotheque u+.niverselle of Le Clerc was then the chief See also:organ in See also:Europe of men of letters
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Locke contributed several articles
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It was his first See also:appearance as an author, although he was now fifty-four years of See also:age
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This tardiness in authorship is a signifi. cant fact in his life, in See also:harmony with his tempered See also:wisdom
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In the next fourteen years the world received through his books the thoughts which had been gradually forming, and were taking final shape while he was in Holland
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The Essay was finished there, and a See also:French See also:epitome appeared in 1688 in Le
Clerc's See also:journal, the forecast of the larger work
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Locke was then at See also:Rotterdam, where he lived for a year in the house of a Quaker friend, See also:Benjamin Furley, or Furly, a wealthy See also:merchant and See also:lover of books
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At Rotterdam he was a confidant of political exiles, including See also:Burnet and the famous earl of See also:Peterborough, and he became known to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William, See also:prince of See also:Orange
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William landed in England in See also:November 1688; Locke followed in See also:February 1689, in the See also:ship which carried the princess See also:Mary
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After his return to England in 1689 Locke emerged through authorship into See also:European fame
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Within a See also:month after he reached London he had declined an offer of the See also:embassy to Brandenburg, and accepted the modest office of See also:commissioner of appeals
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The two following years, during which he lived at See also:Dorset Court in London, were memorable for the publication of his two chief works on social polity, and of the See also:epoch-making See also:book on See also:modern philosophy which reveals the See also:main principles of his life
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The earliest of these to appear was his See also:defence of religious liberty, in the Epistola de Tolerantia, addressed to Limborch, published at See also:Gouda in the See also:spring of 1689, and translated into English in autumn by William Popple, a Unitarian merchant in London
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Two See also:Treatises on Government, in defence of the right of ultimate See also:sovereignty in the See also:people, followed a few months later
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The famous Essay concerning Human Under-See also:standing saw the light in the spring of 1690
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He received 30 for the See also:copyright, nearly the same as See also:Kant got in 1781 for his Kritik der reinen Vernunft
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In the Essay Locke was the critic of the empirical data of human experience: Kant, as the critic of the intellectual and moral presuppositions of experience, supplied the See also:complement to the incomplete and ambiguous See also:answer to its own leading question that was given in Locke's Essay
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The Essay was the first book in which its author's name appeared, for the Epistola de Tolerantia and the Treatises on Government were See also:anonymous
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Locke's asthma was aggravated by the See also:air of London; and the course of public affairs disappointed him, for the See also:settlement at the Revolution fell short of his ideal
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In spring, 1691, he took up his residence in the See also:manor house of Otes in See also:Essex, the See also:country seat of Sir See also:Francis Masham, between Ongar and Harlow
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Lady Masham was the accomplished daughter of See also:Ralph Cudworth, and was his friend before he went to Holland
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She told Le Clerc that after Locke's return from exile, " by some considerably long visits, he had made trial of the air of Otes, which is some 20 M. from London, and he thought that none would be so suitable for him
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His company," she adds, " could not but be very desirable for us, and he had all the assurances we could give him of being always welcome; but, to make him easy in living with us, it was necessary he should do so on his own terms, which Sir Francis at last assenting to, he then believed himself at home with us, and resolved, if it pleased See also:God, here to end his days as he did." At Otes he enjoyed for fourteen years as much domestic See also:peace and See also:literary leisure as was consistent with broken health, and sometimes anxious visits to London on public affairs, in which he was still an active adviser
.
Otes was in every way his home
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In his letters and otherwise we have pleasant pictures of its inmates and domestic life and the occasional visits of his friends, among others Lord Peterborough, Lord Shaftesbury of the Characteristics, Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton, William See also:Molyneux and See also:Anthony See also:Collins
.
At Otes he was busy with his See also:pen
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The See also:Letter on Toleration involved him in controversy
.
An Answer by See also:Jonas Proast of See also:Queen's College, Oxford, had See also:drawn forth in 1690 a Second Letter
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A rejoinder in 1691 was followed by Locke's elaborate Third Letter on Toleration in the summer of the following year
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In 1691 currency and See also:finance were much in his thoughts, and in the following year he addressed an important letter to Sir John See also:Somers on the Consequences of the Lowering of See also:Interest and Raising the Value of See also:Money
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When he was in Holland he had written letters to his friend Clarke of Chipley about the education of his See also:children
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These letters formed the substance of the little See also:volume entitled Thoughts on Education (1693), which still holds its place among See also:classics in that See also:department
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Nor were the " principles of revealed religion " forgotten
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The subtle theological controversies of the 17th century made him anxious to show how See also:simple after all fundamental Christianity is
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In the Reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures (anonymous, 1695), Locke sought to See also:separate the divine essence of Christ's religion from later accretions of dogma, and from reasonings due to oversight of the necessary limits of human thought
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This intended Eirenicon involved him in controversies that lasted for years
.
Angry polemics assailed the book
.
A certain John See also:- EDWARDS, AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD (1831-1892)
- EDWARDS, BELA BATES (18o2-1852)
- EDWARDS, BRYAN (1743–1800)
- EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693–1773)
- EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837–1884)
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703—1758)
- EDWARDS, LEWIS (1806–1887 )
- EDWARDS, RICHARD (c. 1523–1566)
- EDWARDS, T
- EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837–1900)
Edwards was conspicuous
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Locke's Vindication, followed by a Second Vindication in 1697, added See also:fuel to this See also:fire
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Above all, the See also:great Essay was assailed and often misinterpreted by philosophers and divines
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Notes of opposition had been heard almost as soon as it appeared
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John See also:Norris, the See also:meta-See also:physical See also:rector of Bemerton and English See also:disciple of Malebranche, criticized it in 1690
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Locke took no notice at the time, but his second winter at Otes was partly employed in An Examination of Malebranche's See also:Opinion of Seeing all Things in God, and in Remarks upon some of m r Norris's Books, tracts which throw light upon his own ambiguous theory of See also:perception through the senses
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These were published after his death
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A second edition of the Essay, with a See also:chapter added on " See also:Personal Identity," and numerous alterations in the chapter on " Power," appeared in 1694
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The third, which was only a reprint, was published in 1695
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Wynne's well-known abridgment helped to make the book known in Oxford, and his friend William Molyneux introduced it in See also:Dublin
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In 1695 a revival of controversy about the currency diverted Locke's attention
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Events in that year occasioned his Observations on See also:Silver Money and Further Considerations on Raising the Value of Money
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In 1696 Locke was induced to accept a commissionership on the See also:Board of See also:Trade
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This required frequent visits to London
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Meantime the Essay on Human Understanding and the Reasonableness of Christianity were becoming more involved in a wordy warfare between dogmatists and latitudinarians, See also:trinitarians and unitarians
.
The controversy with Edwards was followed by a more memorable one with See also:Stillingfleet, See also:bishop of See also:Worcester
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John See also:Toland, in his Christianity not Mysterious, had exaggerated doctrines in the Essay, and then adopted them as his own
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In the autumn of 1696, Stillingfleet, an argumentative ecclesiastic more than a religious philosopher, in his Vindication of the See also:Doctrine of the Trinity, charged Locke with disallowing See also:mystery in human knowledge, especially in his account of the metaphysical See also:idea of " substance
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" Locke replied in January 1697
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Stilling-See also:fleet's rejoinder appeared in May, followed by a Second Letter from Locke in August, to which the bishop replied in the following year
.
Locke's Third Letter, in which the ramifications of this controversy are pursued with a copious See also:expenditure of acute reasoning and polished See also:irony, was delayed till 1699, in which year Stillingfleet died
.
Other critics of the Essay entered the lists
.
One of the ablest was John Sergeant, a See also:priest of the Roman Church, in Solid Philosophy Asserted Against the Fancies of the Ideists (1697)
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He was followed by Thomas Burnet and Dean See also:Sherlock
.
See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee, rector of Tichmarch, criticized the Essay, chapter by chapter in a See also:folio volume entitled