Locke
Enlightenment thinker's surname
Locke is an English surname, most notably associated with John Locke (1632–1704), the philosopher whose ideas about natural rights, government by consent, and the social contract shaped modern liberal democracy.
His influence on the American founders was profound: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness echoes Locke.
The name also belongs to the character in the TV series *Lost*.
Knowledge through observation
- tabula rasaUnmarked mental starting point
- social contractAgreement exchanging freedom for order
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- natural rightsFreedoms inherent to personhood
consent · toleration · property · government · Hobbes · Rousseau · Montesquieu · Berkeley
Common male name
- surnameHereditary family identifier
- EnglishBritain's native tongue
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
- genealogyStudy of family descent
No longer found
- islandWater-bounded land mass
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
- faithTrust without proof
Jacob · television · mystery · survivor · Oceanic
empiricism
Knowledge through observation
- tabula rasaUnmarked mental starting point
- social contractAgreement exchanging freedom for order
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
natural rights · consent · toleration · property · government · Hobbes · Rousseau · Montesquieu · Berkeley · Hume
John
Common male name
- surnameHereditary family identifier
- EnglishBritain's native tongue
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
Lost
No longer found
- islandWater-bounded land mass
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
key
Lock-opening device
deadbolt · latch · combination · safe · vault
- 17th Century ThinkersRene Descartes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Thomas Hobbes
- Baroque Era FiguresDescartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Newton
- enlightenment educationliberal arts, classical languages, rhetoric, logic, natural philosophy
- Enlightenment ThinkersVoltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Hume, Diderot
- EthicistsAristotle, Kant, Immanuel Kant, Bentham, Mill
- philosophersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Kant, Descartes
LockeDescartes
Cogito ergo sum's author
Leibniz · Spinoza · Plato · Wolff · rationalism
LockeHobbes
English political philosopher
authoritarianism · Marx · totalitarianism · Rousseau · absolute monarchy
- locked upConfined or secured
- locked outUnable to enter
- lock upSecure or imprison
- locked doorSecured portal requiring key
- locker roomShared space for dressing
- locked awayConfined in secure storage
lock, locked, unlock, locks, locker, locket, padlock, unlocked, locking