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John Locke (1632-1704) essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) maintained that experience was the only source of knowledge (empiricism), and that "we can have knowlege no farther than we have ideas" prompted by such experience.

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Two Treatises on Government 1690 was influential in forming modem ideas of liberal democracy.

Born in Somerset, he studied at Oxford, practised medicine, and in 1667 became secretary to the Earl of Shaftesbury. He consequently fell under sus read more...

Tags: empiricism, democracy, impressions

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