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Leighton Library has a 1740 edition of "A letter concerning toleration" by John Locke
Added at 06:30 on 29 August 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1740 edition of "A letter concerning toleration" the first work of English philosopher and physician known as the "Father of Liberalism" John Locke who was born #OnThisDay 29 August 1632, in whose memory today is also #IndividualRightsDay. His work was important to social contract theory, and greatly affected development of epistemology and political philosophy. His theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, postulating that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception, a concept now known as empiricism
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