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Slavery, Sovereignty, and "Inheritable Blood": Reconsidering John Locke and the Origins of American Slavery". According to American historian James Farr, Locke never expressed any thoughts concerning his contradictory opinions regarding slavery, which Farr ascribes to his personal involvement in the slave trade. He also showed his tendency toward religious tolerance when working on The Fundamental Constitutions for the Government of Carolina (1669), which, among other provisions, guaranteed freedom of religion for all except atheists. Further, the constitution pledged that “every freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power and authority over his negro slaves”.

Locke: Natural Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property John Locke: Natural Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property

In the centuries since his passing, his writings—which cover a variety of subjects from philosophy to economics—have had a significant impact and have continued to influence how we currently perceive the world. Locke's religious trajectory began in Calvinist trinitarianism, but by the time of the Reflections (1695) Locke was advocating not just Socinian views on tolerance but also Socinian Christology. George Washington, the first president of the United States, once described Locke as “the greatest man who had ever lived.If one’s labour turns a barren field into crops or a pile of wood into a house, then the valuable product of that labour, the crops or the house, becomes one’s property. The legislative body cannot create laws that violate the law of nature regarding life, liberty, and property. Moreover, Locke anchors property in labour but, in the end, upholds unlimited accumulation of wealth. In his view, it was important to actively oppose atheism in others while maintaining one’s own trust in God. At Christ Church, perhaps Oxford's most prestigious school, Locke immersed himself in logic and metaphysics, as well as the classical languages.

Locke, Empiricism, Knowledge | Britannica Epistemology - Locke, Empiricism, Knowledge | Britannica

Some Thoughts Concerning Education grew from a series of letters Locke wrote from Holland to his friend Edward Clarke about Clarke’s son’s education. Following Shaftesbury's fall from favour in 1675, Locke spent some time travelling across France as a tutor and medical attendant to Caleb Banks. Biography and associated logos are t If the executive power fails to provide conditions under which people can enjoy their rights under natural law, then the people are entitled to remove that authority, even by force. The essay’s importance in the English-speaking world of the 18th century can scarcely be overstated.Silver and gold, he says, are treated to have equal value by all of humanity and can thus be treated as a pledge by anyone, while the value of paper money is only valid under the government which issues it. Following Locke's philosophy, the American Declaration of Independence founded human rights partially on the biblical belief in creation. But, according to Locke, in the state of nature one is not entitled to hoard surplus produce—one must share it with those less fortunate. He helped steer the resurrection of the Board of Trade, which oversaw England's new territories in North America.