Locke also held that the main purpose of men uniting into commonwealths and governments was for the preservation of their property.

Locke and Mill also argued that we cannot define individuals.

It was also during this time that Locke served as Secretary of the Board of Trade and Plantations and Secretary to the Lords and Proprietors of the Carolinas, helping to shape his ideas on international trade and economics.

Although he was not always mentioned by name as an inspiration, due to his controversy, he is also thought to have been an influence for other major philosophers, such as Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke and Montesquieu.

Poe had complained for a decade that the paper's Great Moon Hoax had plagiarized ( by way of Locke ) the basic idea from The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Pfaall, one of Poe's less successful stories which also involved similar inhabitants on the moon.

As understood by Locke, tabula rasa meant that the mind of the individual was born " blank ", and it also emphasized the individual's freedom to author his or her own soul.

The earliest major philosophers to publish in English, such as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke also routinely wrote in Latin and French, and compared their terms to Greek, treating the words " logos ", " ratio ", " raison " and " reason " as inter-changeable.

As pointed out by philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke and Hume, some animals are also clearly capable of a type of " associative thinking ", even to the extent of associating causes and effects.

The use of the state of nature to imagine the origins of government, as by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, may also be considered a thought experiment.

Cornetts and trombones also formed an independent ensemble of five to eight parts for ceremonial music: in France they were used thus up to Mersenne ’ s time ; in England for such music as John Adson ’ s Courtly Masquing Ayres ( 1621 ), and Matthew Locke ’ s music for ‘ His Majesty ’ s Sagbutts and Cornetts ’ ( 1661 ); in Germany for Turmmusik by J. C. Pezel ( e. g. Fünff-stimmigte blasende Music, 1685 ) and by Gottfried Reiche ; and in Italy in most important cities until the mid-18th century, including Bologna, where the Concerto Palatino was active until 1779 and Rome, where the Concerto Capitolino survived until 1789.

Sondra Locke, also a previous Academy Award nominee was cast by Eastwood against Kaufman's wishes, as the granddaughter of the old settler woman, Laura Lee.

The late 18th century was a period of political, economic, intellectual, and cultural reforms, the Enlightenment ( represented by figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Adam Smith ), but also involving early Romanticism, and climaxing with the French Revolution, where freedom of the individual and nation was asserted against privilege and custom.

John Locke had also argued for this, but he had made no distinction between minds and bodies on this point, whereas both Berkeley and Malebranche maintained ( each in his own way ) that we could have ideas of bodies but not of minds.

It may also have been influenced by the then-popular ideology of Locke that men should be allowed their natural liberties ; these democratic strains of thought influenced the populist movements of the time, of which The Beggar's Opera was a part.

) and the disposition to refer on disputed questions of philosophy not so much to formal arguments as to the testimony of consciousness and our natural instincts are also amongst the points in which Hutcheson supplemented or departed from the philosophy of Locke.

In Locke ’ s view, human beings led also an unpeaceful life in the state of nature.

Thomas Hobbes, under the influence of Francis Bacon, re-oriented political thought to what was most solid but also most low in man — his physical hopes and fears — setting a precedent for John Locke and the later economic approach to political thought, as in David Hume and Adam Smith.

In this section, Paine also attacks one type of " mixed state " the constitutional monarchy promoted by John Locke in which the powers of government are separated between a Parliament or Congress that makes the laws, and a monarch who executes them.

Religious tolerance was also established elsewhere in the colonies ; the colony of South Carolina, for example, was originally governed under an elaborate charter drawn up in 1669 by the English philosopher John Locke.

Having admitted his sons Francis ( 1745 – 1822 ) and Charles ( 1754 – 1831 ) into partnership he undertook for the " New Conger " Association the issue of a standard edition of the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Locke and other British classics ; also Cruden's Concordance.

He also conducted dedicated studies of the fashionable philosophers of the time John Locke, Christian von Wolff, Leibniz, and Descartes, as well as returning to earlier thinkers Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and others.

Locke also hired Lillian H. Smith, a Canadian graduate from the training school at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, to head the Children's department.

John Locke was also an influence on libertarian law theory ( see Two Treatises of Government ).

He was also influenced by the English philosopher John Locke.

In 1900, Strunk married Olivia Emilie Locke, with whom he had three children, including the noted musicologist, Oliver Strunk.

The renowned Irish tenor John McCormack ( 1884 – 1945 ) advised him that his voice was better suited to a lighter repertoire than the operatic one he had in mind, and urged him to find an agent — thus he found the noted impresario Jack Hylton ( 1892 – 1965 ) who booked him, but couldn't fit his full name on the bill, thus Joseph McLaughlin became Josef Locke.

The contrast effect was noted by the 17th century philosopher John Locke, who observed that lukewarm water can feel hot or cold, depending on whether the hand touching it was previously in hot or cold water.

Among them are the former residences of: Charles Manuel " Sweet Daddy " Grace, flamboyant founder of the United House of Prayer For All People ; John A. Lankford, the first African American architect in Washington, D. C .; Belford Lawson, Jr., lead attorney in the landmark case New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co .; Alain LeRoy Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance ; Mary Jane Patterson, the first African American woman to earn a bachelor's degree ; Ella Watson, subject of Gordon Parks's famous photograph American Gothic, Washington, D. C .; and James Lesesne Wells, noted graphic artist and longtime art instructor at Howard University.

The school also has noted alumni such as Karate Legend Robert Bellis, Hairdresser to the Stars, Joseph Griffiths, Christopher Allen debt recovery entrepreneur, Anthony Ellis, a former scriptwriter on Neighbours and Home and Away, as well as John S. Locke owner of The Commercial Hotel and Laugh Inn comedy theatre in Chester.

Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy is noted for the quality and readability of its prose, as are some of the works of the British Empiricists, such as Locke and Hume.

British philosopher John Locke argued that moral rules cannot be established from conscience because the differences in people's consciences would lead to contradictions.

John Locke viewed the widespread social fact of conscience as a justification for natural rights.

John Locke in his Essays on the Law of Nature argued that the widespread fact of human conscience allowed a philosopher to infer the necessary existence of objective moral laws that occasionally might contradict those of the state.

Locke highlighted the metaethics problem of whether accepting a statement like " follow your conscience " supports subjectivist or objectivist conceptions of conscience as a guide in concrete morality, or as a spontaneous revelation of eternal and immutable principles to the individual: " if conscience be a proof of innate principles, contraries may be innate principles ; since some men with the same bent of conscience prosecute what others avoid.

These newspaper essays condemning tyranny and advancing principles of freedom of conscience and freedom of speech, were a main vehicle for spreading the concepts that had been introduced by John Locke.

From these results we see that Shaftesbury, opposed to Hobbes and Locke, is in close agreement with Hutcheson, and that he is ultimately a deeply religious thinker, inasmuch as he discards the moral sanction of public opinion, the terrors of future punishment, and the authority of the civil authority as the main incentives to goodness, and substitutes the voice of conscience and the love of God.

The liberal charter which John Locke drew up in 1669 for the governance of the Carolinas should have operated to attract Jews there at an early date, since " Jews, heathen, and dissenters " were by the terms of Locke's charter granted full liberty of conscience.

For surveys, the most common approach is to follow a historical path by associating stances with the philosophers who are most strongly associated with them, for example Descartes, Locke, Kant, etc.

Inspired by John Locke, the fundamental constitutional principle is that the individual can do anything but that which is forbidden by law, while the state may do nothing but that which is authorized by law.

According to Locke, a general idea is created by abstracting, drawing away, or removing the uncommon characteristic or characteristics from several particular ideas.

Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others as a British Empiricist.

One form is equality of persons in right, sometimes referred to as natural rights, and John Locke is sometimes considered the founder of this form .< ref > Arneson Richard, " Egalitarianism ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( 2002.

John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the primary exponents of empiricism in the 18th century Enlightenment, with Locke being the person who is normally known as the founder of empiricism as such.

In response to the early-to-mid-17th century " continental rationalism " John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i. e., based upon experience.

Locke is famously attributed with holding the proposition that the human mind is a tabula rasa, a " blank tablet ," in Locke's words " white paper ," on which the experiences derived from sense impressions as a person's life proceeds are written.

According to Locke, our knowledge of things is a perception of ideas that are in accordance or discordance with each other, which is very different from the quest for certainty of Descartes.

# Natural Rights / Justice Argument: this argument is based on Locke ’ s idea that a person has a natural right over the labour and / or products which is produced by his / her body.

Although Locke had never explicitly stated that natural right applied to products of the mind, it is possible to apply his argument to intellectual property rights, in which it would be unjust for people to misuse another's ideas.

John Locke is often credited with the philosophical foundations of classical liberalism.

While it was once thought that Locke wrote the Treatises to defend the Glorious Revolution of 1688, recent scholarship has shown that the work was composed well before this date, and it is now viewed as a more general argument against absolute monarchy ( particularly as espoused by Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes ) and for individual consent as the basis of political legitimacy.

Locke fled to the Netherlands in 1683, under strong suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot, although there is little evidence to suggest that he was directly involved in the scheme.

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For advocates of the theory that justice is part of natural law ( e. g., John Locke ), it involves the system of consequences that naturally derives from any action or choice.

The distinction is mostly applied to modern philosophy with philosophers such John Locke, David Hume and George Berkeley on the empiricist side, and René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz on the other.