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The 100 pages that link to John Locke, each with the reason it gives.
James MillCompared with: Locke’s account of ideas provided a major precedent for associationism, though Mill developed a more reductive psychology.
MinarchismRelated: Locke's limited-government arguments helped shape later defenses of state restraint.
Negative libertyRelated: His defense of individual rights shaped later arguments for protected private freedom.
Christ Church, OxfordRelated: Locke studied at Christ Church and later returned as a tutor and academic.
Francis HutchesonRelated: Hutcheson inherited an empiricist framework while resisting the idea that morality derives from self-interest.
George BerkeleyRelated: Berkeley develops his critique of abstract ideas and material qualities from debates prompted by Locke.
GeorgismRelated: Georgist arguments engage the tension between private property and claims to natural resources.
NativismCompared with: His critique of innate principles became a defining empiricist challenge.
Tabula rasaRelated: His account of the mind as initially unwritten made tabula rasa a defining image of empiricism.
AgrarianismRelated: His account of property helped frame landownership as a basis for individual independence.
Individual rightsRelated: His account of life, liberty, and property shaped later rights declarations.
Noble savageCompared with: His state of nature is neither Rousseau’s idyllic past nor Hobbes’s war of all against all.
Primary and secondary qualitiesRelated: He gave the distinction its influential early modern formulation in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Substance theoryRelated: His account of substance as an unknown support tests how much the theory can explain.
Limited governmentRelated: Locke argued that political power is limited by the rights it exists to protect.
Political ideologyRelated: Locke’s arguments helped shape liberal ideas about rights and legitimate government.
Westminster SchoolRelated: Locke attended Westminster before entering the University of Oxford.
A Treatise of Human NatureRelated: Hume develops and revises Locke’s empiricist account of the mind.
History of educationRelated: His account of learning shaped debates about upbringing, instruction, and the developing mind.
Individual libertyRelated: His account links personal freedom to rights that precede political authority.
John NewberyRelated: Locke’s educational ideas helped frame the period’s debate about how children should learn.
On LibertyCompared with: Locke’s rights-based defense of liberty differs from Mill’s appeal to utility.
Garrett HardinRelated: Hardin’s proposed remedies for commons dilemmas invoked the political legitimacy of property and coercion.
LeviathanCompared with: Locke's account limits political power and permits resistance where Hobbes prioritizes sovereign stability.
Thomas SydenhamRelated: Locke was Sydenham’s friend and medical collaborator, sharing an interest in experience-based knowledge.
An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingRelated: Hume inherits Locke’s empiricism while pressing its account of knowledge and causation further.
Bernard BosanquetCompared with: Locke’s emphasis on pre-political individual rights contrasts with Bosanquet’s socially formed account of freedom.
TolerationRelated: His Letter Concerning Toleration shaped influential arguments for religious permission and exposed its historical limits.
Two Treatises of GovernmentNarrower topic: The treatises are Locke's most influential sustained account of political authority.
Anders ChydeniusRelated: Locke's defense of toleration offers a wider context for Chydenius's arguments on religious liberty.
Laurence SterneRelated: Locke’s account of the association of ideas becomes a comic subject in Sterne’s novel.
Philosophy of educationRelated: Some Thoughts Concerning Education links habits and experience to the formation of character.
SocinianismRelated: Locke engaged with Socinian controversies while developing arguments about Christianity and toleration.
Émile, or On EducationCompared with: Locke’s practical, habit-forming educational advice provides a major antecedent and contrast to Rousseau’s developmental approach.
Mary AstellCompared with: Astell contested Lockean arguments about political authority and the legitimacy of resistance.
Modern philosophyBroader topic: His theories joined an account of experience to influential arguments about political legitimacy.
Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceCompared with: Blake’s imaginative vision complicates empiricist accounts of how experience shapes the mind.
An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingRelated: Locke developed the Essay’s account of experience, ideas, and knowledge.
Cultural liberalismRelated: His account of rights helped shape liberal arguments for limits on authority.
Quality (philosophy)Related: His distinction between primary and secondary qualities recast the debate around perception.
Coloring bookRelated: His educational ideas helped shape the broader culture of learning through activity.
Enlightenment philosophyRelated: His account of rights and consent became a major source for liberal political arguments.
Government (form of rule)Related: His account of consent helped shape arguments for constitutional and representative rule.
History of democracyRelated: His arguments influenced later defenses of representative government and popular consent.
History of liberalismRelated: His account of consent and rights became a foundational statement of early liberal thought.
Matthew PriorRelated: Locke was Prior’s contemporary at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.
Natural rights and legal rightsRelated: His account of life, liberty, and property became a major model of rights preceding government.
Right-libertarianismRelated: His account of property and legitimate government became a lasting source for libertarian arguments.
SecularityRelated: His case for religious toleration helped articulate limits on civil authority over belief.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyRelated: Sterne adapts Locke’s account of association and personal identity for comic storytelling.