The 17th-century philosopher John Locke heavily influenced the American founding. The Heritage Foundation’s Joseph Loconte explains what advice Locke might have for America today.

Locke considered that every well-educated young person should study the works of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694) and Richard Hooker (1554-1600).

Lind's basic argument is something like this: Locke's outline for the proper role and scope of government allows for two types of rights: natural rights (for the folks at home, these are the ones ...

Locke's political philosophy, like any that centers on individual rights such as property rights, raises the question whether human beings have any duty to charity, or economic assistance, to the ...

Dunn, John. 1969/1995. The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the ‘Two Treatises of Government'. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. —–. 1986. Rethinking ...

John Locke (1632–1704) concerned himself primarily with society, where his views are often contrasted with those of Thomas Hobbes, and with epistemology, where he is usually placed alongside ...

John Locke was one of the original landgraves, as were the proprietors and high-born men such as Edmund Bellinger, Thomas Ash, Edmund Andros, Daniel Axtell, Sr. and Joseph Blake.