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 * JOHN LOCKE**

**JOHN LOCKE** **    // Background: // John Locke was a British philosopher. He was a successful government official who collected information about trade and colonies. He was also an economic writer, an opposition to political activists, and finally a revolutionary. Locke was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1656 and a master's degree in 1658. He was a very modest and truthful man, who only believed in learning and teaching the truth. **

==  John Locke was born at Wrington on August 29, 1632 and died October 28, 1704 (age 72). In 1674, he graduated with a bachelor of medicine from Oxford. His knowledge of medicine exploded in 1666. It began with a surgery where he saved the statesman's life by a skillful operation, arranged a suitable marriage for his heir, attended the lady in her confinement, and directed the nursing and education of her son. John believed in only teaching the truth, he had discovered through his learnings in the past that the government and churches would teach things that he was certain were not true. He did not approve of this and wanted to teach and learn the truth. He also came up with the idea of natural rights. John believed that gay marriage is legal. ==

**   He wants what some people call a "representative democracy", which people elect representatives to vote on subjects. ** **   The people that call that a "representative democracy", frankly, are wrong. John Locke was a famous philosopher who believed that humans, when born, had a clear mental state. He said that humans changed because of their surroundings. He believed that government was only there to protect human's right to life, liberty, and property. He strongly lived by the theory that government was an agreement between the ruler and the ruled, and if the ruler failed on his part of the bargain, the people had the right and responsibility to get rid of the ruler. His beliefs are commonly contrasted to those of Thomas Hobbes, who believed practically the opposite. Hobbes believed that humans were vile creatures, who needed a government, because without one, people would be living in a constant state of warfare. **


==       The Great Astronomical Clock, or "Electro-Chronograph" is placed in the same room with the Transit-Instrument, and is used in connection with it to denote sidereal time. It was invented by Professor John Locke, of Cincinnati, and is one of the most remarkable instruments in the world. By means of an electrical battery in the building, the movements of this clock can be repeated by telegraph in any city or town in the land to which the wires extend. With the wires connected with it, its ticks may be heard in any part of the country, and it will record the time so accurately that an astronomer in Portland or New Orleans can tell with exactness the time of day by this clock. It also regulates the time for the city. ==

Locke Time Line
** __1632__ 29 August Locke is born.**
 * __1642__ The English Civil War begins**
 * __1646__ Locke is admitted to Westminster School**
 * __1649__ January 30. King Charles I is executed, the House of Lords abolished; England is declared a Commonwealth**
 * __1656__ Locke graduates B.A.**
 * __1658__ Locke graduates M.A.**
 * __1660__ Locke meets Robert Boyle, the chemist, who was to be his friend and correspondent for thirty years. Locke writes his first treatise on the Civil Magistrate.**
 * __1660__ Charles II returns to England and is restored to the throne.**
 * __1661__ Locke's father dies.**
 * __1667__ Locke began collaborating with Thomas Sydenham in medical research.**
 * __1670__ Locke (under the supervision of Shaftsbury) writes the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina**
 * __1671__ Locke writes the first draft of the //Essay Concerning Human Understanding// From this year until 1675 Locke appears to have been the secretary to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina**
 * __1672__ October-November. Locke visits Paris**
 * __1675__ Locke graduates M.B. On 12 November he goes to France and remains there until 1678**
 * __1678__ Titus Oates charges that there was a Popish plot to kill King Charles II and put his Catholic brother James on the throne.**
 * __1681__ Lord Shaftsbury tried for treason but acquitted.**
 * __1682__ Locke meets Damaris Cudworth,** **daughter of Ralph Cudworth (a Cambridge Platonist).**
 * __1682__ November 28. Shaftsbury flees to Holland where he dies on 21 January 1683**
 * __1683__ September. The Rye House Plot to kill Charles II exposed; Locke flees to Holland; Essex, Russell and Algernon Sydney (leaders of the Whig party) arrested.**
 * __1684__ Locke expelled from his studentship at Christ Church College, Oxford, by Royal command.**
 * __1690__ Jonas Proast publishes //The Argument of the// 'Letter of Toleration' //Briefly Considered and Answered//**
 * __1695__ Locke answered criticisms of the //Reasonableness// in //A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity//.**
 * __1696__ A Board of Trade established and Locke appointed to it. The Board had a variety of duties including overseeing colonial governments. Though ill of health, Locke remained on the Board until 1700. He was its most influential member.**
 * __1697-99__ Locke engaged in an extensive controversy with Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester.**
 * __1700__ Locke remained at Oates until his death in 1704.**

**WANTED!!! **      In 1685, his name was on a list of "traitors" wanted by the English government. He had to go into hidding. Locke, who as a friend of Shaftesbury, and by now author of the Two Treatises of Government, was threatened too, followed in 1683. His fellowship at Christ Church was very soon terminated by the king's personal order. **   John Locke was an Oxford scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and idealogue for a revolutionary movement, as well as being one of the great philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. His monumental //Essay Concerning Human Understanding// aims to determine the limits of human understanding. Earlier writers such as Chillingworth had argued that human understanding was limited, Locke tries to determine what those limits are. We can, he thinks, know with certainty that God exists. We can also know about morality with the same precision we know about mathematics, because we are the creators of moral and political ideas. In regard to natural substances we can know only the appearances and not the underlying realities which produce those appearances. Still, the atomic hypothesis with its attendant distinction between primary and secondary qualities is the most plausible available hypothesis. Locke's //Two Treatises of Civil Government// were published after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought William of Orange and Mary to the throne, but they were written in the throes of the Whig revolutionary plots against Charles II in the early 1680s. In this work Locke gives us a theory of natural law and natural rights which he uses to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate civil governments, and to argue for the legitimacy of revolt against tyrannical governments.

DEAD OR ALIVE!! ** -

HERO

He was made Commissioner of Excise Appeals in the new government. But his major task in this period was to prepare his earlier writings for publication. he continued to hold some public offices, being a Commissioner of the Board of Trade from 1696. And he was still a potent intellectual force, being frequently consulted by the Whig leaders of the government. figure in one of the greatest transformations for the better that has taken place in the history of political societies. AWARDED: GREAT PHILOSOPHER

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