Locke,+John

Thinkers' Name:John Locke Write a two paragraph Mini-Biography on your assigned Thinker. Your Mini-Biography shouls include: Birth and death dates, p lace of origin, chronological facts about his/her life, and any important or groundbreaking original works.

MINI-Biography: John Locke born in 1632, died in 1704 was a British philosopher, an Oxford academic and a medical researcher, whose connection with Anthony Ashley Cooper led him to become successively a government official charged with collecting information about trade and colonies, economic writer, opposition political activist, and finally a revolutionary who won in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Much of Locke's work is characterized by opposition to absolutism. He disagreed on being controlled by a government or church. Locke wants everyone to use reason to search after truth rather than simply accept the opinion of authorities or be subject to superstition. The positive side of Locke's anti-authoritarianism is that he believes that using reason to try to grasp the truth, and determining the right ways for an institutions will optimize human to find better ways of rule. Locke wrote a variety of important political, religious and educational works including the Two Treatises of Government, the Letters Concerning Toleration, The Reasonableness of Christianity and Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Answer the following questions: ~What events in this person’s life, from child to adulthood, shaped him or her? Learning about medicine during the outbreak in the civil war.

~ What hurdles did they overcome in order to accomplish what they did? Civil wars in Europe.

~ What did this person do that was the highlight of their life? Locke created works which help stop absolutism in England and the Americas.

~ Did this person do anything that was special and affected many others? Locke's works started a new age of wonder which created new studies in math and science.