John Locke (1632-1704)
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"Man hath by nature a power to preserve his property-- that is, his life, liberty, and estate--against the injuries and attempts of other men." |
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The Works of John Locke: |
Frontispiece portrait to the first edition of Locke's Works
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--Essay Concerning Human Understanding --Two Treatises of Government --Thoughts Concerning Education --Observations Concerning the Value of Money --Letters Concerning Toleration |
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"He is little acquainted with the subject of this treatise, the Understanding, who does not know, that as it is the most elevated faculty of the soul, so it is employed with a greater and more constant delight than any of the other." --Locke, from the Epistle to the Reader of the 1st edition of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
"Father of psychology, father of the criticism of knowledge, father of theoretical liberalism, god-father at least of the American political system, of Voltaire and the Encyclopaedia, Locke was the ancestor of that whole school of polite moderate opinion which can unite liberal Christianity with mechanical science." --George Santayana |
"Bacon, Locke and Newton--I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical & Moral Sciences." --Thomas Jefferson
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