His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American Revolutionaries.
His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory.
John Locke FRS ( / l ɒ k/ 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London
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