The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval Natural law tradition that became prominent during the Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and featured prominently in the political discourse of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Through his friend Richard Lower, whom he knew from the Westminster School, Locke was introduced to medicine and the experimental philosophy being pursued at other universities and in the Royal Society, of which he eventually became a member.

The theory of the divine right of kings became a passing fancy, exposed to the type of ridicule with which John Locke treated it.

These ideas about rights reflected those of the political thinker John Locke and they quickly became popular in England.

It became " one of the most important books that heralded the Scientific Revolution " and European Enlightenment, and the thoughts expressed in the novel can be found in " different variations and to different degrees in the books of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Immanuel Kant.

At first a sensualist, like Condillac and John Locke, next an intellectualist, he finally became a mystical theosophist.

While there, he became influenced by the teachings of John Locke, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, the Encyclopédistes, Quesnay, Mirabeau, Turgot, and other Enlightenment political thinkers, all in preference to theology.

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.

In 1947, too, Locke released " Hear My Song, Violetta ", which became forever associated with him.

After his return from France Prior became under-secretary of state and succeeded John Locke as a commissioner of trade.

Former Washington State Supreme Court justice Phil Talmadge was the first candidate to enter the race for the Democratic primary, challenging Gary Locke before he announced his retirement, but Washington Attorney-General Christine Gregoire quickly became the frontrunner, leading in fundraising and endorsements.

However Stephenson ’ s administrative inefficiency soon became apparent, whereas Locke estimated the costs for his section of the line so meticulously and speedily, that he had all of the contracts signed for his section of the line before a single one had been signed for Stephenson's section.

Lord Ashley now retired to the Netherlands, where he became acquainted with Georges-Louis Leclerc, Pierre Bayle, Benjamin Furly, the English Quaker merchant, at whose house Locke had resided during his stay at Rotterdam, and probably Limborch and the rest of the literary circle of which Locke had been a cherished and honoured member nine or ten years before.

The ideas of toleration as advocated by Locke ( which excluded Roman Catholics ) became accepted through most of the colonies even in the Congregational strongholds within New England ( which had previously punished or excluded dissenters ).

He argued against the sort of social-contract theory that became dominant among early-modern political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, but some of his thinking found echoes in the more liberal, Lockean contract theorists.

November 5, 2006, Greg Locke became the founding pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, TN.

In 2006 Pastor Locke became the Founding and Lead Pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, TN.

He became the pupil of Joseph Locke during the construction of the Grand Junction Railway and he became the resident engineer after that line opened.

When the merger that created Locke, Liddell & Sapp took place in 1999, she became the co-managing partner of a legal business with more than 400 lawyers.

In April 2007, Miers rejoined her previous firm, Locke Liddell & Sapp, and became a partner in its litigation and public policy group.

He became an early opponent of John Locke, whose An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1690 ) he attacked in Christian Blessedness or Discourses upon the Beatitudes in the same year ; he also combatted Locke's theories in his Essay toward the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World ( 1701-4 ).

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.

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.

Locke, on the other hand, believed that they underestimated the power of the latest locomotives and that the shortest practicable route should be chosen, even if it involved some steep gradients.

By 1985 Locke had left the SAL but was still involved in various issue movements.

Recently, Locke has been involved in campaigns against the New Zealand Police being armed with Taser guns, and repeal of the law of sedition.

In order not to seem to be plagiarizing Tron, Glen A. Larson involved Donald Kushner, who had been an operating producer of Tron, and his partner, Peter Locke, as operating producers of Automan.

Locke never publicly admitted to being the author, while rumours persisted that others were involved.

After breaking up with Morpheus, Niobe eventually becomes involved with Commander Jason Locke, a taciturn, practical man who is in many ways the exact opposite of Morpheus.

Given the questionable connotation of the ' physical ' as something opposed to the mental, it is important to keep in mind that thinkers of the Enlightenment, such as Locke, can not quite give us a metaphysical definition that gets at the complexities involved in the meaning of such a term.

Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

Alain Locke wrote in his foreword to the literary collection The New Negro, “ We turn therefore in the other direction to the elements of truest social portraiture … we shall let the Negro speak for himself .” Locke believed that African Americans lived in a world with political realities, and thus needed to respond with a deliberate politics in their work.

It is Filmer, Locke alleges, that is the innovator in politics, not those who assert the natural equality and freedom of man.

Leo Strauss in his Natural Right and History contentiously argues that Locke is more or less Hobbesian in his conception of politics.

The conceptual difficulty of bare particulars was illustrated by John Locke when he described a substance by itself, apart from its properties, as " something, I know not what.

This still involves basic ontological issues of the sort raised by Leibniz Locke, Hume, Whitehead and others, which remain outstanding particularly in relation to the binding problem, the question of how different perceptions ( e. g. color and contour in vision ) are " bound " to the same object when they are processed by separate areas of the brain.

Locke advanced the theory that when one mixes one ’ s labor with nature, one gains a relationship with that part of nature with which the labor is mixed, subject to the limitation that there should be " enough, and as good, left in common for others.

Even when it keeps to proper legislative form, though, Locke held that there are limits to what a government established by such a contract might rightly do.

In response to Locke, Anglican Irish Bishop George Berkeley advanced a form of idealism in which things only continue to exist when they are perceived.

Philosophies proposed by the likes of Rousseau, Locke, and Descartes were evolving around the time when the boy was discovered in France in 1800.

According to other social contract theorists, citizens can withdraw their obligation to obey or change the leadership, through elections or other means including, when necessary, violence, when the government fails to secure their natural rights ( Locke ) or satisfy the best interest of society ( called the " general will " in Rousseau, who is more concerned with forming new governments than in overthrowing old ones ).

She argues that their intellectual debts to Locke are most evident when one looks at the 1865 debates in the Province of Canada ’ s legislature on whether or not union with the other British North American colonies would be desirable.

In his Introduction to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke defines idea as " that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it.

Alain Locke writes in a review, " when will the Negro novelist of maturity, who knows how to tell a story convincingly -- which is Miss Hurston's cradle gift, come to grips with motive fiction and social document fiction?

Such positions were formally documented for the first time in 1697 by William Molyneux in a widely publicized letter to John Locke, and more extensively in 1713, when Anthony Collins wrote his Discourse of Free-thinking, which gained substantial popularity.

Locke was born in Attercliffe, Sheffield in Yorkshire, moving to nearby Barnsley when he was five.

Despite the many criticisms of Stephenson ’ s work, when the bill for the new line was finally passed, in 1826, Stephenson was appointed as engineer and he appointed Joseph Locke as his assistant to work alongside Vignoles, who was the other assistant.

Robert Stephenson and Joseph Locke were convinced that locomotives were vastly superior, and in March 1829 the two men wrote a report demonstrating the superiority of locomotives when used on a busy railway.

A significant difference between the surveying methods of George Stephenson and Joseph Locke was that, because Stephenson had started his career at a time when locomotives had little power to overcome excessive gradients, he avoided such gradients at all costs, often adding many miles to the line of the route, whereas Locke had more confidence in the ability of modern locomotives to climb these gradients.

Playing off each other ’ s writings, the siblings work to manipulate world events and opinions, so that when the extraterrestrials threatening the world (" Buggers ") are defeated, the resulting League War ( caused by the world ’ s only common enemy ceasing to exist ) is quickly resolved by the " Locke proposal ".

" On the other hand, Locke wrote that private land ownership should be praised, as long as its product was not left to spoil and there was " enough, and as good left in common for others "; when this Lockean proviso is violated, the land earns rental value.

It was originally named Lockeport after George Locke, who owned the land that the town was built upon at a time when Chinese people were not allowed to own land.

The original beginnings of Locke then called Lockeport was in 1912, when three Chinese merchants.

He was partnered with Vikki Locke at WSTR Star 94 until fall 2007 when Locke retired due to medical reasons.

In one of his letters to Locke at the beginning of 1692, when Montagu, Lord Monmouth and Locke were exerting themselves to obtain some appointment for Newton, Newton wrote that he was " fully convinced that Montagu, upon an old grudge which he thought had been worn out, was false to him.