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John Locke

1632 - 1704

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John Locke (; 29 August 1632 (O.S.) – 28 October 1704 (O.S.)) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American Revolutionaries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Locke is the 23rd most popular philosopher (down from 18th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 10th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Philosopher.

John Locke is most famous for his philosophy of empiricism, which states that all knowledge comes from experience.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, John Locke ranks 23 out of 1,267. Before him are Thales of Miletus, Heraclitus, Thomas Aquinas, Diogenes, Erasmus, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. After him are Arthur Schopenhauer, Montesquieu, Democritus, Seneca the Younger, Epicurus, and Averroes.

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Among people born in 1632, John Locke ranks 2. Before him is Baruch Spinoza. After him are Johannes Vermeer, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Samuel von Pufendorf, Christopher Wren, Jean Mabillon, Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Michael I Apafi, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, and Adam Frans van der Meulen. Among people deceased in 1704, John Locke ranks 1. After him are Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Georg Muffat, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Charles Plumier, Isabella Leonarda, and Selim I Giray.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Locke ranks 27 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles II of England (1630), James Watt (1736), Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665), Stephen Hawking (1942), John, King of England (1166), and Richard III of England (1452). After him are Ada Lovelace (1815), James II of England (1633), Henry VI of England (1421), William IV of the United Kingdom (1765), George IV of the United Kingdom (1762), and Richard I of England (1157).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, John Locke ranks 2. Before him are Francis Bacon (1561). After him are Thomas Hobbes (1588), David Hume (1711), Thomas More (1478), Herbert Spencer (1820), Roger Bacon (1220), Jeremy Bentham (1748), William of Ockham (1285), Joseph Priestley (1733), John Wycliffe (1324), and Duns Scotus (1265).

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