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“ ”The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.
About John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an influential English philosopher and social contract theorist. He developed an alternative to the Hobbesian state of nature and asserted a government could be good only if it received the consent of the governed and protected the natural rights of life, liberty, and estate. If such a consent was not achieved, Locke argued in favour of a right of rebellion, which he referred to as an "appeal to heaven".
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Additional quotes by John Locke
positive laws of an established government.
He that had as good left for his improvement as was already taken up, needed not complain, ought not to meddle with what was already improved by another's labour:
It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men.