John Locke#John
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#John
John Locke · 1632–1704
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Who this is
“The fugitive physician who came home from exile with two anonymous books that furnished the modern world — one arguing that your mind is built from experience, the other that your government serves at your pleasure.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Everything in the mind comes from experience, and all legitimate government comes from consent — knowledge and power both have to be earned, not inherited.”
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