That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.

Central to classical liberal ideology was their interpretation of John Locke's Second treatise of government and " A letter concerning toleration ", which had been written as a defence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

John Locke's description of a general idea corresponds to a description of a concept.

The publication of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689, but dated 1690 ) marks a major turning point in the history of deism.

Probably the two most famous declarations of a right to revolution against tyranny in the English language are John Locke's Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government and Thomas Jefferson's formulation in the United States Declaration of Independence that " all men are created equal ".

John Locke's work Some Thoughts Concerning Education was written in 1693 and still reflects traditional education priorities in the Western world.

The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

The modern would advance versions of John Locke's infinite malleability of the human animal.

They argue that the American constitution owes as much or more to the English Liberal philosopher John Locke's emphasis on the rights of property and to Montesquieu's theories of the separation of powers.

Locke's father, also called John, was a country lawyer and clerk to the Justices of the Peace in Chew Magna, who had served as a captain of cavalry for the Parliamentarian forces during the early part of the English Civil War.

However, the theory has been traced back to Treatise of Taxes, written in 1662 by Sir William Petty and to John Locke's notion, set out in the Second Treatise on Government ( 1689 ), that property derives from labor through the act of " mixing " one's labor with items in the common store of goods, though this has alternatively been seen as a labor theory of property.

This represented a break with the past, in that previously it was believed that external and absolute reality could impress itself, as it was, on an individual, as, for example, in John Locke's ( 1632 – 1704 ) empiricism, which saw the mind beginning as a tabula rasa ( An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690 ).

This plain language carried over to John Locke's teaching, which emphasized concrete knowledge and steered away from ornamentation in speech, further alienating rhetorical instruction, which was identified wholly with this ornamentation, from the pursuit of knowledge.

Anarchy, State and Utopia claims a heritage from John Locke's Second Treatise on Government and seeks to ground itself upon a natural law doctrine, but reaches some importantly different conclusions from Locke himself in several ways.

John Locke's close relationship with Clarke, along with the respect he commanded, is seen by academics as what led to this decision.

The revolt of New World British colonists in North America, during the mid-1770s, has been seen as the first assertion of the right of national and democratic self-determination, because of the explicit invocation of natural law, the natural rights of man, as well as the consent of, and sovereignty by, the people governed ; these ideas were inspired particularly by John Locke's enlightened writings of the previous century.

The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

In fact, our modern idea of the theory is mostly attributed to John Locke's expression of the idea in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the 17th century.

An intense interest in spiritualism, parapsychology, and hypnosis continued throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, running in parallel with John Locke's views that there was an association of ideas requiring the coexistence of feelings with awareness of the feelings.

John Locke's conception of the social contract differed from Hobbes ' in several fundamental ways, retaining only the central notion that persons in a state of nature would willingly come together to form a state.

With his scanty earnings he bought a Latin copy of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and mastered it with the aid of a Latin dictionary.

He is known, among other things, for his critique of Thomas Hobbes's egoism and John Locke's theory of personal identity.

Rooted in the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant ( and of German Idealism more generally ), it developed as a reaction against 18th Century rationalism, John Locke's philosophy of Sensualism, and the manifest destiny of New England Calvinism.

The Latin translation of his work, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

In 1691, an article in the London Gazette mentioned John Lofting, who held a patent for a fire engine: " The said patentee has also projected a very useful engine for starting of beer, and other liquors which will draw from 20 to 30 barrels an hour, which are completely fixed with brass joints and screws at reasonable rates ".

The London Gazette of 17 March 1691 published a patent in favour of John Lofting for a fire engine, but remarked upon and recommended another invention of his, for a beer pump:

* September 7 – Colonel John Birch, English soldier ( d. 1691 )

** Sir John Flavel, English dissenter ( d. 1691 )

* June 20 – John George III, Elector of Saxony ( d. 1691 )

The area that became Lancaster County was part of William Penn's 1681 charter, and John Kennerly received the first recorded deed from Penn in 1691.

However, examples of the city's architecture, spanning nearly four centuries, abound: from early colonial houses ( the White residence, the Duston Garrison House, the 1704 John Ward House, the 1691 Kimball Tavern, and the historic district of Rocks Village ) to the modernist 1960s architecture of the downtown Haverhill Bank.

The Township of Woodbridge is the oldest original township in the state of New Jersey and is named after Reverend John W. Woodbridge ( 1613 – 1691 ) of Newbury, Massachusetts.

As a non-conformist, he was removed from his church, and John was there to take care of affairs when, in 1691 his father died.

In 1689 Hody wrote the Prolegomena to the Greek chronicle of John Malalas, published at Oxford in 1691.

The most distinguished of these was John Moore, who became Bishop of Norwich in 1691, and Bishop of Ely in 1707 and also William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize winner.

By his first wife he had ten children, of whom one son, Henry, survived him and became 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dying in 1691 without surviving male issue ; the title then became extinct and the estates passed to his third daughter Margaret, wife of John Holles, Earl of Clare, created Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1694.

Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale ( b. c1620 Lethington-d. 9 June 1691, Haltoun House ), was the second son ( The Great Seal of Scotland gives him as third son ) of John Maitland, 1st Earl of Lauderdale ( died 1645 ).

** John Flavel, theologian ( died 1691 )

* John Thomas ( bishop of Salisbury ) ( 1691 – 1766 ), previously Bishop of St Asaph and Bishop of Lincoln

The chief authority for the bishop's life is William de Chambre, printed in Wharton's Anglia Sacra, 1691, and in Historiae conelmensis scriptores tres, Surtees Soc., 1839, who describes him as an amiable and excellent man, charitable in his diocese, and the liberal patron of many learned men, among these being Thomas Bradwardine, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Fitzralph, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, the enemy of the mendicant orders, Walter Burley, who translated Aristotle, John Mauduit the astronomer, Robert Holkot and Richard de Kilvington.

* John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough ( c. 1691 – 1777 ), Irish MP for Baltinglass 1721 – 1763

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* John Adams, Sr. ( 1691 – 1761 ), father and grandfather of two US presidents, whose home is a National Historic Site

She married Prince James Louis Henry Sobieski, son of King John III Sobieski of Poland, on 8 February 1691.

It first appeared in Wesley's Hymns for those that Seek, and those that Have Redemption ( Bristol, 1747 ), apparently intended as a Christianization of the song " Fairest Isle " sung by Venus in Act 5 of John Dryden's operatic play King Arthur ( 1691 ), on which Wesley's first stanza is modelled.

* John Dormer, 7th Baron Dormer ( 1691 – 1785 )

* Sir John Gage, 5th Baronet ( c. 1691 – 1700 )

* John Nairne, de jure 3rd Lord Nairne ( 1691 – 1770 )