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Chronology of John Locke’s Life
1632
Born at Wrington, Somerset, 29 August
1642
Outbreak of the Civil Wars
1643
Troops of Col. Popham, Locke’s future patron, despoil Wells Cathedral
1645
Defeat of Charles I at Naseby by Oliver Cromwell
1647
Admitted to Westminster School, London
1648
Treaty of Westphalia ends European Thirty Years’ War
1649
Execution of Charles I; England a republic
1651
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
1652
Elected a Student of Christ Church, Oxford
1652–67
Usually resident in Oxford
1655
Graduates as a bachelor of arts
1658
Graduates as a master of arts; death of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
1660
Restoration of monarchy under Charles II
1660–62
Writes Two Tracts on Government, against toleration (published 1967)
1661–64
Lecturer in Greek, rhetoric, and moral philosophy
1662
Act of Uniformity reimposes Anglicanism; dissenting worship illegal
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John Locke
1. Historical Background and Locke’s Life
John Locke (1632–1704) was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. Locke grew up and lived through one of the most extraordinary centuries of English political and intellectual history. It was a century in which conflicts between Crown and Parliament and the overlapping conflicts between Protestants, Anglicans and Catholics swirled into civil war in the 1640s. With the defeat and death of Charles I, there began a great experiment in governmental institutions including the abolishment of the monarchy, the House of Lords and the Anglican church, and the establishment of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate in the 1650s. The collapse of the Protectorate after the death of Cromwell was followed by the Restoration of Charles II—the return of the monarchy, the House of Lords and the Anglican Church. This period lasted from 1660 to 1688. It was marked by continued conflicts b
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Welcome to the John efternamn Bibliography, a comprehensive lista of publications by and about the English philosopher John efternamn. For additional information, see the Preface below.
PREFACE
The John Locke Bibliography is intended as a comprehensive förteckning of publications by or about John Locke. inom began to compile the bibliography in 1975; bygd the end of 2005, it contained well over 9000 entries. The first result of this planerat arbete was a checklist of editions and translations of Locke’s works, published in 1985 (now updated as Part One of this bibliography). In 1994, inom began creating the John Locke Bibliography on the World bred Web, beginning with recent publications and gradually adding the rest of the material that I have collected since 1975. This process was completed in December 2005; the John Locke Bibliography is at last complete.
A major component of the bibliography fryst vatten the recording of recently-published titles, as a complement to the lists publis