John Locke
Published on Mar 21, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
QUOTE:
- "We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
John Locke is famous because he was an enlightenment thinker, who wrote about how people consent to government for protection of natural rights to life, liberty, and property. He inspired Thomas Jefferson, and Jefferson derived parts of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence from Locke's ideas.
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INTERESTING FACTS
- He started as a personal physician to the Earl of Shaftsbury, and became involved in government through helping him.
- His book Two Treaties of Government made him a target of the government, and they pinned him for an attempted murder he didn't commit.
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- He was exiled in Holland, but still continued to write things against the government, then published those writings after his return to England.
- Locke was the only philosopher to become a minister of the government.
- Even though Locke was about the freedom of men, he supported slavery and owned slaves.
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