# John Locke

- Id: `john_locke`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/john-locke/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `3d9e89d839b55aad8db5799287b5adb6f49d60e8a5bec142c50d66a10ee616b1`

## Summary

Locke traces ideas to sensation and reflection, then measures how far knowledge can reach without pretending to certainty. In politics he treats power as a trust grounded in consent and limited by rights, law and the public good.

## Overview

John Locke died at Oates on 28 October 1704.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1632-1704",
    "era": "Early modern period",
    "distance": "322–394 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 72
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Empiricism and political philosophy",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Empiricism and political philosophy"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1704,
    "display": "1704 CE",
    "reason": "John Locke died at Oates on 28 October 1704."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 1133,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
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    {
        "name": "Wrington",
        "period": "1632",
        "description": "Locke’s birthplace in Somerset.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/"
    },
    {
        "name": "London",
        "period": "1647-1652; 1667-1675; 1689-1700",
        "description": "Westminster School, Shaftesbury’s Exeter House household, publication work and later Board of Trade service tie several documented phases of Locke’s life to London.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Oxford",
        "period": "1652-1666; later ties",
        "description": "Study, teaching, medicine and natural philosophy at Christ Church.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Calais",
        "period": "1675, journey through France",
        "description": "Locke entered France through Calais on the journey that led him to Paris, Lyon and Montpellier.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Paris",
        "period": "1675-1679, French journey",
        "description": "Paris was a documented stage of Locke’s extended French journey before and after his stay in Montpellier.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Lyon",
        "period": "1675, French journey",
        "description": "Locke passed through Lyon while travelling from Paris toward Montpellier.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Montpellier",
        "period": "1675-1677",
        "description": "Locke spent about fifteen months in Montpellier, studying medicine, natural philosophy and French Protestant life.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Utrecht",
        "period": "1683-1689, Dutch exile",
        "description": "Utrecht was one of Locke’s principal places of residence during his six-year Dutch exile.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2375/Locke_Toeration1560_LFeBk.pdf"
    },
    {
        "name": "Amsterdam",
        "period": "1683-1689, Dutch exile",
        "description": "Amsterdam was one of Locke’s principal residences in exile and connected him with Dutch advocates of toleration.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2375/Locke_Toeration1560_LFeBk.pdf"
    },
    {
        "name": "Rotterdam",
        "period": "1683-1689, Dutch exile",
        "description": "Rotterdam was another principal residence during Locke’s Dutch exile.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2375/Locke_Toeration1560_LFeBk.pdf"
    },
    {
        "name": "Oates, High Laver",
        "period": "1691-1704",
        "description": "Final residence with Sir Francis and Damaris Masham, and place of death.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/"
    }
]
```