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English Philosopher and Physician, Widely Regarded as one of the Most Influential of Enlightenment Thinkers and Commonly Known as the "Father of Liberalism"
: An English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #1 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Revolution and Rights
“For those who would persuade us that by being born under any government we are naturally subjects to it, and have no more any title or pretense to the freedom of the state of Nature, have no other reason... to produce for it, but only because our fathers or progenitors passed away their natural liberty, and thereby bound up themselves and their posterity to a perpetual subjection to the government which they themselves submitted to. It is true that whatever engagements or promises any one made for himself, he is under the obligation of them, but cannot by any compact whatsoever bind his children or posterity.”
Source: Locke, John, "Second Treatise on Government," 1690. Chapter 8.
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