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John Locke

Nacido: August 29, 1632 – Wrington, Somerset, England

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician whose work shaped liberal political theory, epistemology, and educational thought. Best known for An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government, he influenced Enlightenment thinkers and the development of constitutional government, individual rights, and modern empiricism in Britain, Europe, and America.

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John Locke came to fiction from outside the usual literary pipeline, and that unusual route became part of his identity as an author. Based in Kentucky, he spent years in insurance and real-estate management before turning seriously to fiction, and he repeatedly described writing as something he pursued alongside his business responsibilities rather than as an early, single-track vocation. In interviews, he said that writing sales and marketing manuals had taught him to make ideas clear, simple, and action-oriented, a background that carried over into the fast, accessible style of his novels. Even at the height of his success, he tended to present himself less as a traditional literary figure than as a businessman who had found an unexpectedly powerful second act in storytelling. ((https://independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1498))

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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience
-An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
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Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common
-An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts
-An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours
-Of the Conduct of the Understanding
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Mens Happiness or Misery is most part of their own making
-Some Thoughts Concerning Education
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But Examples of these are but few, and I think I may say, that of all the Men we meet with, Nine parts of Ten are what they are, Good or Evil, useful or not, by their Education
-Some Thoughts Concerning Education
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The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions:
-Two Treatises of Government
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So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom:
-Two Treatises of Government
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Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's harm
-Two Treatises of Government

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