In the summer of 1704, English philosopher John Locke began writing a response to a critic of his controversial treatise on religious freedom, A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689). It was ...

Concerned about the moral laxity of Restoration England, the wealthy landowner and politician Edward Clarke turned to his lifelong friend John Locke for advice about how to raise his son.

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English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) lived through one of the most turbulent and divisive periods in British history. At the center of the storm, he believed, was a degraded form of ...

Opinions expressed are those of the author. John Locke, the oft-quoted grandfather of British Liberalism, whose "life, liberty and property" almost made it into the U.S. Declaration of ...

See About archive blog posts. Kentucky-based independent author John Locke has joined big-name writers Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child, Suzanne Collins ...

THE tercentenary of the birth of John Locke occurred on Aug. 29 last, and to mark the event Messrs. J. and E. Bumpas, Ltd., have brought together at the Old Court House, Oxford Street, London ...

Inspired by the recent discovery of several unknown books from John Locke’s personal library by Cambridge scholar Felix Waldmann, Craig Walmsley set out to see if there were any unpublished ...