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The Influence of John Locke

John Locke was someone more than just an ordinary man. He was the son of a

country attorney and born on August 29, 1632. He grew up during the civil war and later

entered the Church of Christ, Oxford, where he remained as a student and teacher for

many years. (Rivitch 23) With a wide variety of political and religious views, he

expressed most of his personnel views on education and social and political

philosophies. Once he noted the five lasting pleasures throughout his career were health,

good news, knowledge, doing good, and eternal paradise. Many of his views both

political and religious were found to be famous throughout history in many countries.

Locke was one of the first people that thought religion and state should be separated.

(Jenkins 123) Locke considered the formation of government from man's own nature,

whether or not government is formed because man is a social animal or if......

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