Western Civilization II / Unit 5 WC2 0424 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Locke: Revocable Sovereignty, Toleration, and the Blank Slate
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The idea
Locke, born in sixteen thirty-two, held that people grant sovereignty to government, revocable when it breaks the law, that toleration follows because no one holds exclusive truth, and that the mind is born a blank slate, so education makes reason.
In practice
The witness: life, liberty and property; government by consent.
Where people slip
The anchor says born sixteen thirty-seven; the witness, thirty-two.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Unlocks
- 0428Reading Locke on the Mind as White Paper
- 0429Hobbes and Locke Compared: Nature, Contract, Sovereign, Revolt
- 0430From Describing the World to Discovering It: What the Revolution Changed
- 0501Kant's Question: What Is Enlightenment?
- 0508Locke: Revocable Sovereignty and the Blank Slate
- 1822Drill 8: What the Quotation Means for Knowledge
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