John+Locke's+Philosophy

By Eric Neu //** One of the main reasons that John Locke is famous is due to his philosophy. John Locke believed in the idea of natural rights. That every single man women and child are born free and equal and are entitled to there natural rights. These rights included Life Liberty and Property. These rights are very similar to the ideas of the United States of America, where everyone is entitled to Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Also by believing in natural rights he believes in no slavery. Which we picked up on a few years after the creation of the country. Another philosophy he has is that he believes that we are all gods property. And by killing one another we are technically destroying gods property. John Locke also says that we learn about the world through internal and external experiences. External Experiences gives us the ideas of supposed external objects, such as color, sound, extension, motion etc. He calls them supposed objects because there existence has yet to be proven. Internal Experience makes us understand the operation of the spirit on the objects of sensation, like knowing, believing, doubting, and so forth. Kind of like explaining how the mind works and how we think. His ideas on the world is what really made him famous. After all he is a Philosophizer so that is to be expected from him.
 * //John Lockes Philosophy

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