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John Locke [dʒɒn lɒk] war ein englischer Arzt sowie einflussreicher Philosoph und Vordenker der Aufklärung.

Locke gilt allgemein als Vater des Liberalismus. Er ist zusammen mit Isaac Newton und David Hume der Hauptvertreter des britischen Empirismus. Des Weiteren ist er neben Thomas Hobbes und Jean-Jacques Rousseau einer der bedeutendsten Vertragstheoretiker im frühen Zeitalter der Aufklärung.

Seine politische Philosophie beeinflusste die Unabhängigkeitserklärung der Vereinigten Staaten, die Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten, die Verfassung des revolutionären Frankreichs und über diesen Weg die meisten Verfassungen liberaler Staaten maßgeblich. In seinem Werk Two Treatises of Government argumentiert Locke, dass eine Regierung nur legitim ist, wenn sie die Zustimmung der Regierten besitzt und die Naturrechte Leben, Freiheit und Eigentum beschützt. Wenn diese Bedingungen nicht erfüllt sind, haben die Untertanen ein Recht auf Widerstand gegen die Regierenden. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. August 1632 – 28. Oktober 1704
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„Arbeit um der Arbeit willen ist gegen die Natur.“

Über den menschlichen Verstand
"Labour for labour's sake is against nature." - Of the Conduct of Understanding. § 16 Haste und
Über den menschlichen Verstand

„Keines Menschen Kenntnis kann über seine Erfahrung hinausgehen.“

Über den menschlichen Verstand (1671, 1690)
Über den menschlichen Verstand

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„Nichts macht einen zarteren und tieferen Eindruck auf den Geist des Menschen als das Beispiel.“

Gedanken über Erziehung
Gedanken über Erziehung

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„Glück und Unglück sind zwei Zustände, deren äußerste Grenzen wir nicht kennen.“

Über den menschlichen Verstand I,2
Über den menschlichen Verstand

„Was unser Denken begreifen kann, ist kaum ein Punkt, fast gar nichts im Verhältnis zu dem, was es nicht begreifen kann.“

Über den menschlichen Verstand (1671, 1690)
Über den menschlichen Verstand

„Nichts ist im Verstand, was nicht vorher in den Sinnen gewesen wäre.“

Über den menschlichen Verstand
Über den menschlichen Verstand

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“Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.”

John Locke buch Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 67
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“faith need not be kept with heretics”
Nulla fides servanda cum Hereticis, nisi satis validi sunt ad se defendendos

Journal entry (25 January 1676), quoted in John Lough (ed.), Locke's Travels in France 1675-1679 (Cambridge University Press, 1953), p. 20.

“Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.”

John Locke buch An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Book II, Ch. 21, sec. 70
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.”

John Locke buch A Letter Concerning Toleration

A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)

“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”

John Locke buch An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Book IV, Ch. 20, sec. 17
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to…”

John Locke buch Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Government, Ch. XVIII, sec. 199
Two Treatises of Government (1689)

“He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.”

John Locke buch An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Book III, Ch. 10, sec. 31
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.”

John Locke buch An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Book IV, Ch. 7, sec. 11
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?”

John Locke buch Some Thoughts Concerning Education

I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
Sec. 130
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.”

John Locke buch Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Government, Sec. 202
Two Treatises of Government (1689)

“He that knows anything, knows this, in the first place, that he need not seek long for instances of his ignorance."”

John Locke buch An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Quelle: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 3, sec. 22

“This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.”

John Locke buch Two Treatises of Government

Second Treatise of Civil Government, Ch. VII, sec. 93
Two Treatises of Government (1689)
Kontext: For if it be asked what security, what fence is there in such a state against the violence and oppression of this absolute ruler, the very question can scarce be borne. They are ready to tell you that it deserves death only to ask after safety. Betwixt subject and subject, they will grant, there must be measures, laws, and judges for their mutual peace and security. But as for the ruler, he ought to be absolute, and is above all such circumstances; because he has a power to do more hurt and wrong, it is right when he does it. To ask how you may be guarded from or injury on that side, where the strongest hand is to do it, is presently the voice of faction and rebellion. As if when men, quitting the state of Nature, entered into society, they agreed that all of them but one should be under the restraint of laws; but that he should still retain all the liberty of the state of Nature, increased with power, and made licentious by impunity. This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

“We are like chameleons; we take our hue and the color of our moral character from those who are around us.”

Attributed to Locke on various quotes sites and on social media, this quotation is a false rendering of "We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear" from Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693).
Misattributed

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

Letter to Anthony Collins (29 October 1703) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1726#lf0128-09_head_098

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