who was john locke and what did he invent
First published Wed Nov 9, 2005; substantive revision Mon Jan 11, 2016. John Locke (1632â1704) is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch.
Peter Gay remarked that âJohn Locke was the founder of the Enlightenment in education as in much elseâ (Gay, 1964). The Two Treatises of Government were published anonymously and it was only in Locke's will that he acknowledged the authorship of this work and others such as the Letters Concerning Toleration.