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.

However there was no consistency in Whig ideology, and diverse writers including John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke were all influential among Whigs, although none of them was universally accepted.

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

Alston was introduced to African art by the poet Alain Locke.

Locke himself was not a deist.

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.

" To Locke, one's own body was part of their property, and thus one's right to property would theoretically guarantee safety for their persons, as well as their possessions.

The parade was led by " Northumbrian " driven by George Stephenson, and included " Phoenix " driven by his son Robert, " North Star " driven by his brother Robert and " Rocket " driven by assistant engineer Joseph Locke.

For example, rather than the West Coast Main Line taking the direct route favoured by Joseph Locke over Shap between Lancaster and Carlisle, Stephenson was in favour of a longer sea-level route via Ulverston and Whitehaven.

This caused a rift between Stephenson and Locke, which was never healed.

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.

The railway was engineered by Joseph Locke and George Stephenson, linked the rapidly-expanding industrial town of Manchester with the port town of Liverpool.

John Locke FRS (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness.

In 1647, Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London under the sponsorship of Alexander Popham, a member of Parliament and his father's former commander.

Although a capable student, Locke was irritated by the undergraduate curriculum of the time.

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.

Locke was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1656 and a master's degree in 1658.

Cooper was impressed with Locke and persuaded him to become part of his retinue.

Locke coordinated the advice of several physicians and was probably instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to undergo an operation ( then life-threatening itself ) to remove the cyst.

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.

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.

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.

* Anthony Collins ( 1676 – 1729 ), philosopher friend of John Locke, was born in Heston.

Fillmore was born in the historical Town of Locke, from which the Town of Summerhill was created.

* Edwin A. Locke ( born 1938 ), American psychologist

* October 28-John Locke, philosopher ( born 1632 )

Lower was born in St Tudy, Cornwall and studied at Westminster School where he met John Locke, and Oxford, where he met Thomas Willis, founder of the Royal Society.

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

Locke Craig, was born in Bertie County, North Carolina on August 16, 1860.

Wilbur was born in Boone County, Iowa, to Dwight Locke Wilbur and Edna Maria Lyman.

Galen John Strawson ( born 1952 ) is a British philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics ( including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self ), John Locke, David Hume and Kant.

Keith James Locke ( born 1944 ) was a New Zealand MP representing the Green Party who was first elected to parliament in 1999.

Locke was born and grew up in Christchurch, to Jack and Elsie Locke, prominent lifelong political activists for a wide variety of causes.

Elsie Locke, then named Elsie Violet Farrelly, was born in Waiuku, New Zealand on 17 August 1912.

Terry O ' Quinn ( born July 15, 1952 as Terrance Quinn ) is an American actor, most famous for playing John Locke on the TV series Lost.

Kimberley Dawn Locke ( born January 3, 1978 ) is an American singer-songwriter and model.

Locke was born in Hartsville, Tennessee, to Donald and Christine Locke, and is the second of two children, with an older brother named Ashley.

Locke was born in Vestal, Broome County, New York, the son of Nathaniel Reed Locke and Hester Locke.

Frances Sargent Locke was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Locke, a wealthy merchant, and his second wife Mary Ingersoll Foster.

Jere Locke Beasley ( born December 12, 1935 ) was the acting governor of the US state of Alabama from June 5 to July 7, 1972.