John Locke

By Jessica Wu
 Early Years
Education and Impact
After meeting with Anthony Ashley Cooper
Content Main Interests
Interests continue
Scientific
Main Ideas ( 3 human natural rights )
Some definitions for the 3 human natural
rights
John Locke's Major Works
Last Years
References
 Early Life
John Locke was born in 1632 in
Somerset, England. When he was
10, the British Civil War began.
His dad was a lawyer and little
landowner who is the captain on
the Parliamentarian side. Using
his wartime connection, he put his
child in the top Westminster
School.
 In 1649, King Charles I was public executed.
And it was only a few feet away from John's
school. The scream of the crowd was heard in
the library and marked John Locke deeply.
Education & He went to Oxford to study medicine and

Impact planned to be a doctor, but life changed when

he met First Earl of Shaftesbury.
His idea about freedom later
John Locke's education impacted the works of the Founding
background and his Fathers of the U.S.A.
impact
 Cooper visit Oxford University to look for a
cure of a liver disease.
After Meeting With Cooper suggested John to move to London
Anthony Ashley and become part of the household. The offer
Cooper was hard to resist, and once Cooper's
entourage, Locke began to participate the
great scientific, educational, religious and
John Locke's life after political debates for the day.
meeting First Earl of Along the way, he also helped Cooper with
Shaftesbury Anthony his liver complaint earning his life long
Ashley Cooper... gratitude.
 John Locke had 3 main interests
Political
Main
1.

2. Epistemological
Interests Epistemology, the philosophical study of the nature, origin,
and limits of human knowledge.
From britannica.com
3. Scientific
John Locke’s 3 interests
(These will help you
understand more about the
ideas John Locke stated)
Political ( Interest Continue )
John was really against Absolute
Monarchy. It basically means he
opposed that the king can have the
absolute power to rule.
He believed that the humans should
protect their natural rights.
He also had a goal to prove that the
government was unjust.
Epistemological ( Interest Continue )
The concept of epistemological is basically
how our mind works and how to improve it.
John Locke mentioned and described in-depth
how people should live.
‘An essay concerning human understanding’ is
a good example of this concept.
 Scientific
-Locke was influenced by Robert Boyle-He argued the theory of
matter in the ‘Essay’-Locke stated that every physical thing is
composed of sub-microscopic properties, which are classified as two
kinds1. Primary, shape and size2. Secondary, color and taste
 In Locke's opinion, human have 3
natural rights. They are life,
liberty and property.
Main Ideas Locke believed that the most basic
human law of nature is the
preservation of mankind.
3 natural rights ( life, liberty, To serve that purpose, he reasoned
property) that individuals have both a right
and a duty to preserve their own
lives.
 Some definitions for his 3 thoughts:

Liberty means the condition in which an

individual has the ability to act following his
Some Definitions or her own will and achieve their potential.

Property is a thing or things belonging to

someone so other people have no rights to
grab it from the owner without permission.

Life is the existence of an individual human

being or animal.
 1. A Letter concerning Toleration

John Locke’s 2.

3.
A second Letter concerning Toleration
A third Letter for Toleration
Two Treatises of Government
Major Work
4.

5. A Essay concerning Human Understanding

6. Some Thoughts Concerning Education
7. The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in
the Scriptures
8. The Reasonableness of Christianity
 Last Years
1. Legacy: The legacy of John Locke is that property rights are the
basis of human freedom. Government exists to protect them.2. Locke spent
his final 14 years in Essex at the home of Sir Francis Masham and his wife,
the philosopher Lady Damaris Cudworth Masham. He died there on October
24, 1704, as Lady Damaris (an English writer, who is the wife of the sir we
mentioned before) read to him from the Psalms.John Locke never married
or fathered any children. He had a very close friendship with Lady Damaris
Cudworth Masham that lasted till his death.
References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZiWZJgJT7I
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/john-locke
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke
https://www.johnlocke.org/about-john-locke/who-is-john-loc
ke/
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