... the greatest figure in the history of political thought. He was born in 1632. He was born at Wrington in Somersetshire. Locke was the son of a Puritan Somerset lawyer who served in the Parliamentary Army during the Civil War. He was educated in his own family circle for around fourteen ... of observation and sometimes by experimentation could be explained as 'Empiricism'. John Locke was considered to be the founder of Empiricism. His first book (Essay Concerning Human Understanding) concerned arguing with Plato, Descartes and other scholars citing that there are no original ideas o...

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