Western Civilization II / Unit 6 WC2 0508 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Locke: Revocable Sovereignty and the Blank Slate
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The idea
Locke, born sixteen thirty-two, stands with Newton as the Enlightenment's founder: sovereignty granted by the people and revocable, toleration because religion is inherited and no one holds exclusive truth, and the mind a blank slate, so a rationalized education can perfect society.
In practice
Unit 05's white-paper passage is the exam's Locke quotation.
Where people slip
The anchor's birth year is sixteen thirty-seven; the witness's is thirty-two.
Your place on the trail
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