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Locke A Biography
Paperback Edition: 1
This is the first comprehensive biography in over fifty years of John Locke - 'a man of versatile mind, fitted for whatever you shall undertake', as one of his many friends aptly described him. Against an exciting background of Civil War, religious intolerance, political struggles
and plots, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, it interweaves the events of Locke's rather varied life with detailed expositions of his developing ideas in medicine, epistemology, religion, and economics. It describes a private life of close friendships and warm companionship, and an increasingly visible public life - Oxford tutor, associate of Shaftesbury, dutiful civil servant. Locke's abiding desire was for quiet residence in his Oxford college engaged in the study and practice of medicine and natural philosophy, yet after years in political exile, he finally became an over-worked but influential public servant. He is seen now as one of the most significant early modern philosophers.
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Pages : 528
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Publication date : 2007
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Sociology, Social & Political Philosophy, History Of Ideas