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

For example John Locke held that some knowledge ( e. g. knowledge of God's existence ) could be arrived at through intuition and reasoning alone.

Indirect realism, the view held by John Locke and Nicolas Malebranche, proposes that we can only be aware of mental representations of objects.

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.

Locke had spent the early 1690s campaigning against the statute, considering it " ridiculous " that the works of dead authors were held perpetually in copyright.

However, in Locke v. Davey, 540 U. S. 712 ( 2004 ), the Court held that states could exclude majors in " devotional theology " from an otherwise generally available college scholarship.

Nevertheless, Locke held that the consolidation of political power can be turned into autocracy, if it is not brought under reliable restrictions ( Kaviraj 2001: 291 ).

The L. A Watts Summer Games started in 1968 and were held at Locke High School.

An example of a scientific realist is John Locke, who held the world only contains the primary qualities that feature in a corpuscularian scientific account of the world ( see corpuscular theory ), and that other properties were entirely subjective, depending for their existence upon some perceiver who can observe the objects.

In the early 18th century, a theory of wit developed by English writers ( particularly John Locke ) held that judgment sees the differences in like things, imagination or fancy sees the likeness in different things, and wit operates properly by employing judgment and fancy to form sound propositions.

Peter Laslett, one of the foremost Locke scholars, has suggested that Locke held the printers to a higher " standard of perfection " than the technology of the time would permit.

To this, Locke rebuts that the world was originally held in common ( a theme that will return in the Second Treatise ).

In summer of 2005, the first extended Ouyang family reunion was held in Locke, near Sacramento.

In September 2009, he led Puerto Rico's four-member component of the United States ' delegation, headed by United States Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke to the III Americas Competitiveness Forum in Santiago, Chile and participated in 2010 in the fourth Forum, held in Atlanta.

In the January 21, 2003, issue of Manhattan weekly NY Press, FrontPage Magazine editor David Horowitz publicly disassociated himself from Locke, stating that certain published e-mails written by Locke as a representative of his publication held views that " do not reflect mine in any way, shape or fashion.

Further, other philosophers like David Hume, René Descartes and John Locke are often held up as early models of philosophers who appealed to empirical methodology.

What it held in common with de Mandeville, Hume, and Locke was that it began by analytically examining the history of material exchange, without reflection on morality.

What it held in common with de Mandeville, Hume, and Locke was that it began by analytically examining the history of material exchange, without reflection on morality.

After revealing to have Kate held hostage, Sawyer, Jack and Locke reluctantly hand over their guns for her safety.

From 1976 to 1979 he held the Royal Society Locke Research Fellowship.

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.

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.

This includes the importance of human rationality, individual property rights, free markets, natural rights, the protection of civil liberties, constitutional limitation of government, and individual freedom from restraint as exemplified in the writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, David Hume, David Ricardo, Voltaire, Montesquieu and others.

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.

Grotius posited that individual human beings had natural rights ; Hobbes asserted that men consent to abdicate their rights in favor of the absolute authority of government ( whether monarchial or parliamentary ); Pufendorf disputed Hobbes's equation of a state of nature with war ; Locke believed that natural rights were inalienable, and that the rule of God therefore superseded government authority ; and Rousseau believed that democracy ( self-rule ) was the best way of ensuring the general welfare while maintaining individual freedom under the rule of law.

Locke argued in Two Treatises of Government that the individual placed some of his rights present in the state of nature in trusteeship with the sovereign ( government ) in return for protection of certain natural individual rights.

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.

The English philosopher, John Locke, was one of the earliest to discuss the concept of individual rights.

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.

Thereupon, instead of founding itself on the singular, concrete individual subject, as did classic philosophy, including contractualism ( Hobbes, John Locke and Rousseau ) but also political economy, Marx began with the totality of social relations: labour, language and all which constitute our human existence.

Locke believed, on the other hand, that men on the whole are more good than wicked and, accordingly, the area for individual liberty can be left rather at large.

Locke is a slightly more ambiguous case than Hobbes because although his conception of liberty was largely negative ( in terms of non-interference ), he differed in that he courted the " republican " ( classical ) tradition of liberty by rejecting the notion that an individual could be free if he was under the arbitrary power of another:

" Locke also said that the individual " has a right to decide what would become of himself and what he would do, and as having a right to reap the benefits of what he did.

Aristotle speculated that purpose can cause action ; thus, Locke began researching the impact goals have on individual activity of its time performance.

Various connecting threads among these varied uprisings include a concern for the " Rights of Man " and freedom of the individual ; an idea ( often predicated on John Locke or Jean-Jacques Rousseau ) of popular sovereignty ; belief in a " social contract ", which in turn was often codified in written constitutions ; a certain complex of religious convictions often associated with Deism or Voltairean agnosticism, and characterized by veneration of reason ; abhorrence of feudalism and often of monarchy itself.

Locke believed that individuals had given consent to government and therefore authority derived from the people rather than from above.

His emphasis on minimizing harm and maximizing happiness in his formulation of the Ethic of Reciprocity was later picked up by the democratic thinkers of the French Revolution, and others, like John Locke, who wrote that people had a right to " life, liberty, and property.

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.

Locke had been looking for a career and in 1667 moved into Shaftesbury's home at Exeter House in London, to serve as Lord Ashley's personal physician.

In the Netherlands, Locke had time to return to his writing, spending a great deal of time re-working the Essay and composing the Letter on Toleration.

Locke never married nor had children.

The objection is associated with Kripke, although philosophers such as Bradley, Locke and Aristotle had already noticed the problem.

In the following generation, John Locke sought to answer Filmer, creating a rationale for a balanced constitution in which the monarch had a part to play, but not an overwhelming part.

For many decades the consensus was that liberalism, especially that of John Locke, was paramount and that republicanism had a distinctly secondary role.

He had high regard for John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton.

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 had two abortions and a tubal ligation within the first four years of the relationship.

On April 10, 1989, while Locke was directing the film Impulse, Eastwood changed the locks on their Bel Air home, had many of her possessions removed and placed in storage.

During the last four years of his cohabitation with Locke, Eastwood had an intermittent, hidden affair with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves.

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

Charles Locke Eastlake said of it " he had not yet learned the art of combining a picturesque exterior with the ordinary comforts of an English home ".

The laws of primogeniture and entail meant that an estate of land had to be passed on intact to the oldest son, and those without land were in large measure powerless .” Of particular importance at this time were the writings of the great English political theorist John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ).

The Institute is named after Cato's Letters, a series of British essays penned in the early 18th century by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon expounding the political views of philosopher John Locke, that had a strong influence on the American Revolution's intellectual environment.

Condillac is important both as a psychologist and as having established systematically in France the principles of Locke, whom Voltaire had lately made fashionable.

As was fitting to a disciple of Locke, Condillac's ideas have had most importance in their effect upon English thought.

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.