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| {{Infobox philosopher|name=John Locke|image=John Locke.png|image_size=200|birth_date=29 August 1632|birth_place=Wrington, Somerset, [[Kingdom of England|England]]|death_date=28 October 1704|death_place=High Laver, Essex, England|school_tradition=Classical [[liberalism]]|nationality=English}} | | {{Infobox philosopher|name=John Locke|image=John Locke.png|image_size=200|birth_date=29 August 1632|birth_place=Wrington, Somerset, [[Kingdom of England|England]]|death_date=28 October 1704|death_place=High Laver, Essex, England|school_tradition=Classical [[liberalism]]|nationality=English}} |
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| '''John Locke''' (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English liberal philosopher. He was one of the last major philosophers to promote [[slavery]] and owned stock in the [[Royal African Company]], but he opposed absolute [[Monarchism|monarchies]].<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Domenico Losurdo]]|year=2011|title=Liberalism: A Counter-History|chapter=What Is Liberalism?|page=3, 15|publisher=Verso|isbn=9781844676934|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5BB3406BC2E64972831A1C00D5D4BFE4|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhsj2yxuoudkhkjp6lzgr5jvgyhu76zxe4gw3d65gpg32a6nded4?filename=Domenico%20Losurdo%2C%20Gregory%20Elliott%20-%20Liberalism_%20A%20Counter-History-Verso%20%282011%29.pdf}}</ref> According to Locke, captives taken in a just [[war]] had forfeited their liberty and could be enslaved.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=[[Domenico Losurdo]]|year=2011|title=Liberalism: A Counter-History|chapter=What Is Liberalism?|page=24–27|publisher=Verso|isbn=9781844676934|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5BB3406BC2E64972831A1C00D5D4BFE4|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhsj2yxuoudkhkjp6lzgr5jvgyhu76zxe4gw3d65gpg32a6nded4?filename=Domenico%20Losurdo%2C%20Gregory%20Elliott%20-%20Liberalism_%20A%20Counter-History-Verso%20%282011%29.pdf}}</ref> Like [[George Washington|Washington]] and [[Hugo de Groot|Grotius]], Locke called indigenous people "wild beasts".<ref name=":0" /> | | '''John Locke''' (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English liberal philosopher. He was one of the last major philosophers to promote [[slavery]], but he opposed absolute [[Monarchism|monarchies]].<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Domenico Losurdo]]|year=2011|title=Liberalism: A Counter-History|chapter=What Is Liberalism?|page=3|publisher=Verso|isbn=9781844676934|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5BB3406BC2E64972831A1C00D5D4BFE4|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhsj2yxuoudkhkjp6lzgr5jvgyhu76zxe4gw3d65gpg32a6nded4?filename=Domenico%20Losurdo%2C%20Gregory%20Elliott%20-%20Liberalism_%20A%20Counter-History-Verso%20%282011%29.pdf}}</ref> |
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| == Works ==
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| === ''Essay Concerning Toleration'' ===
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| Locke hated [[Catholicism|Catholics]], especially [[Irish]] Catholics, and compared them to snakes in his ''Essay Concerning Toleration''.<ref name=":0" />
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| === ''Second Treatise'' ===
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| ==== Indigenous peoples ====
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| Locke's ''Second Treatise'' states that [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous peoples in America]] did not have [[labour]], [[Private property|property]], or [[money]], and therefore had no right to their land. He equated natives with wild animals.<ref name=":0" /> He supported the privatization of land and saw communal land as a relic of a [[Primitive communism|primitive]] state of nature.<ref name=":1">{{Citation|author=[[Domenico Losurdo]]|year=2011|title=Liberalism: A Counter-History|chapter=White Servants|page=78|publisher=Verso|isbn=9781844676934|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5BB3406BC2E64972831A1C00D5D4BFE4|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhsj2yxuoudkhkjp6lzgr5jvgyhu76zxe4gw3d65gpg32a6nded4?filename=Domenico%20Losurdo%2C%20Gregory%20Elliott%20-%20Liberalism_%20A%20Counter-History-Verso%20%282011%29.pdf}}</ref>
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| ==== Private property ====
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| Locke believed it was lawful to kill petty thieves and prioritized private property over life.<ref name=":1" />
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| == References == | | == References == |
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| [[Category:Liberals]] | | [[Category:Liberals]] |
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Locke, John}}
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