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Locke: A Biography.(Book review)
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Independent Review
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June 22, 2008
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- Skoble, Aeon J.
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Locke: A Biography
By Roger Woolhouse
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Pp. xxx, 528. $39.99
It is common, even among philosophers, to joke about how little influence philosophers have on the world. But that isn't true. The independence of the United States of America and Soviet communism alike were arguably the ultimate practical results of a radical argument advanced by a philosopher. John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most significant and direct influence on the American founders in large part because of his having been such a significant influence on the Glorious Revolution in England some eighty years earlier. Locke's philosophical ...
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Locke: A Biography
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346 words
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