philosopher John Locke

Only after half a lifetime of learning could a man aspire to be a great leader, a philosopher-king. ... They include works by philosophers, pedagogues, preachers, and practitioners such as John Locke and Mary Wollstonecraft, Max Weber and Sigmund Freud, Martin Luther King and Betty Friedan, Larry ...

It was the noted English philosopher John Locke who said “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” Every child is an individual with a unique learning style and individual readiness. Pushing a child to read beyond where that child is ready, ...

Instead, the 65-year-old Kasich looked back much further — to the messages of philosophers Plato, Aristotle, Camus, Nietzsche and John Locke and religious leaders including St. Augustine and Martin Luther. "As a result of the fact that we are all made in the image of our creator, everyone deserves ...

John Locke, also known as the “Father of Liberalism”, was an English physician and philosopher. In the Age of Enlightenment, he held the reputation of being one of most influential and prominent thinkers. He was the prime mover in the development of political philosophy and Epistemology, the branch of ...

It concludes with English philosopher John Locke's well-known treatises on civil government, which continue to influence legal debates about ... those who are called philosophers [are] like the silver and gold, which they did not create but dug, as it were, from the mines of providence, which is everywhere.”.

The Enlightenment philosopher John Locke deserves to be considered an honorary Founding Father of the U.S. because the young Thomas Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence used his radical ideas to justify the American revolutionaries. Indeed, the famous first two paragraphs, with their ...

An early idea on land ownership came from 17th Century English political philosopher John Locke. His work refers to the 'state of nature' when ... Several political philosophers also argued that it is a government's duty to protect the property of its citizens. This idea of a 'social contract' remains relevant.

Apart from philosophers, noted European poets and writers like William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, John Locke, John Dryden, Leon ... Celebrated Greek philosopher Plato, referred to by Justice Ashok Bhushan in his decision, said if a man had a sickly constitution and intemperate habits, his life was ...

Libertarians, however, espouse a classical liberalism that can be traced to the work of English philosopher John Locke, Scottish economist Adam Smith and American novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. Those ideas, very generally, combine some of the best — or worst, depending upon one's perspective ...

In respective judgements on passive euthanasia, a five-bench constitution bench referred to Swami Vivekananda and Charvaka as well as ancient Greek thinkers like Epicurus, Plato and Hippocrates. Writers William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, John Locke, John Dryden, John Donne, Ernest ...