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John Locke (1634–1704) is an English philosopher best known for his empiricist philosophy of mind and cognition. Locke’s theories of knowledge and belief were based wholly on the principle that everything in our mind gets there by way of experience.

This SparkNotes guide contains a brief discussion of Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and a brief discussion of on Locke’s First Treatise of Government and Second Treaties of Government.

SparkNotes also offer separate, more comprehensive study guides to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Second Treaties of Government as well as a guide to another of Locke’s famous works, Some Thoughts Concerning Education.

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