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English Philosopher & Empiricist
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In the smoky aftermath of the 1688 Glorious Revolution, a quietly insistent manuscript circulated among London’s dissenting clergy and Whig pamphleteers, drafted not in Westminster but in exile in the Netherlands, where its author had fled fearing arrest for treason. That text, the Two Treatises of Government, didn’t just justify rebellion, it dismantled the divine right of kings with surgical precision, grounding legitimate authority in consent, property, and the people’s right to dissolve power that breaches its trust. Unlike contemporaries who built political theory on scripture or ancient precedent, this thinker insisted that all knowledge, including moral and political truth, begins in sensory experience: no innate ideas, no preloaded maxims, only the mind as tabula rasa, written upon by the world. His empiricism wasn’t abstract speculation; it was the epistemological bedrock for limiting state power, defending conscience, and insisting that rights aren’t granted by monarchs, they’re inseparable from human existence itself.
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