Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to
Portrait by John Michael Wright, c. 1669–70
Frontispiece from De Cive (1642)
Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving by William Faithorne, 1668
Tomb of Thomas Hobbes in St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, in Derbyshire
John Locke
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John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". His important works
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…nowhere say, that they are incorporeal, meaning thereby without dimensions and quantity". (In this view, Hobbes claimed to be following Tertullian.) Like John Locke, he also stated that true revelation can never disagree with human reason and experience, although he also argued that people should accept revelation…
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697
An engraved memorial plaque to Locke at Oxford
Christ Church College, Oxford
John Locke, earliest known portrait, John Greenhill c. 1672-73