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This 5 page paper examines the ideas of John Locke. Specific examples are provided and various areas and works are discussed. Some original works are listed in the bibliography. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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His three primary areas of focus in philosophy appears to be knowledge, politics and education. Three works of his pertaining to these topics are An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the
Second Treatise of Civil Government and Some Thoughts Concerning Education respectively. John Locke "is best known for developing an empirical approach to philosophy-that is, one in which truth is believed
to derive chiefly from experience" (Nichols 20). The idea that experience is the fundamental route to knowledge is not shared by all. In fact, it is a very controversial idea.
And while this is an important part of Lockes ideas, his political philosophy is perhaps better known. In the Second Treatise on Government, John Locke examines a variety of
issues. For example, in Chapter XIX, he writes: " The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property; and the end while they choose and authorize
a legislative is that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the society, to limit the power and moderate the
dominion of every part and member of the society" (Locke Second Treatise on Government). In essence, there is a social contract. In this chapter Locke focuses on property, but the
entire Treatise is not exactly like that. The Treatise on the other hand, suggests that people must obey the law and at the same time-in an almost contradictory manner-suggests that
people also have personal freedom. Lockes ideas go to the fact that people are free to come and go as they please. Property rights and other rights are part
and parcel of the state. It seems as if Lockes philosophy is tied to the idea that people need to obey the law, but that freedom is very
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