John Locke: 3 ideas worth knowing

3 ideas from John Locke, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

Locke said your mind arrived completely blank
Against philosophers who claimed humans are born with innate ideas already in the mind, John Locke argued the mind starts as a blank slate, a tabula rasa, with nothing written on i…
— John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Locke asked what happens if a prince's memories woke up in a cobbler's body
John Locke argued personal identity isn't about having the same body or soul, but the same continuous consciousness. To test the idea, he imagined a prince's memories transferred i…
— John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
A philosopher argued kings rule only because the governed allow it
John Locke's Second Treatise of Government claimed people are born with natural rights to life, liberty and property, and form governments only by consent to protect them. When a g…
— John Locke, Two Treatises of Government

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