John Locke/Philosophers

John Locke

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John Locke was a 17th - early18th century philosopher , an academic at Oxford as well as a medical researcher . He became a successive government official , collecting trade and colony information and becoming an economic writer , political activist in the opposition and eventually , a revolutionary (IEP , 2001 . Locke was himself a great educationalist in the sense that he was not only a practitioner of good education , but also its publicist , besides significantly contributing to the human understanding of religion , medicine , science , economics , and

br political philosophy (Aldrich , 1999 . John Locke is among the most significant English philosophers , affecting the most important areas of human life and humans ' environment . This will focus on his contributions to society during his life , through his written works and his active involvement in social change

In education , Locke had a lot of influence , counseling parents to avoid giving their children liberty or indulge them , by saying that doing so would do them no good , as their need for judgment leads them to a need for restraint and discipline . He argued that by children not being used to submitting their wills to the reason of others , they would experience difficulties submitting to their own reason once they become of age (Aldrich , 1999

Locke 's knowledge and practice of medicine led to his accidental acquaintance with Lord Ashley , becoming a Shaftesbury 's household 's member even without having to serve his association with Oxford . He was seen as indispensable in domestic as...