Locke, John
Syllabification: (Locke, John)
Pronunciation: /läk/
Definition of Locke, John
- (1632–1704), English philosopher; a founder of empiricism and political liberalism. His Two Treatises of Government (1690) argues that the authority of rulers has a human origin and is limited. In An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) he argued that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.
Derivatives
Pronunciation: /ˈläkēən/
adjective