He was also the founder of British empiricism. He is known for his great contribution to

the Enlightenment period, in which he gave people the idea of natural rights and a

government that protects those rights. John Locke also wrote a famous essay called

Concerning Human Understanding and attacked the theory of divine right of kings

in Two Treatises of Government. John Locke was a very important philosopher and his

John Locke was born in Wrinlington, Somerset on August 29,1632. He lived from

1632 to 1704. He was the son of a puritan lawyer who fought for Cromwell in the English

civil war. The father also named John Locke was a very devoted man to his work and

family and an even-tempered man.John Locke was educated at Westminniser School and

Oxford and later became a tutor at the university. His friends urged him to leave the

church and start writing all of his great ideas, but John Locke said he was not fit for that

calling, so he remained at the Church of England. He had long been

Ashley Cooper, later Lord Chancellor, and the first earl of Shaftbury. Locke's association

Locke was always very interested in psychology, and in about 1670, some of his

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