NTA UGC/NET/SET/JRF Political Science Paper 2 - 2024, 2nd Edition, Includes 2023 Solved Papers
by Pradyumn Tripathi
CHAPTER 6
John Locke
INTRODUCTION
John Locke is an English philosopher known as the ‘Father of Liberalism’ and as the most influential of enlightenment thinkers. His idea of liberalism as a political and social dimension combines constitutionalism, stability, freedom, consent, property, and tolerance which has played a crucial role in the orderly development of Western Democracies. He was an inspirer of both the European Enlightenment and the Constitution of the United States. His political thought was grounded in the notion of a social contract between citizens and in the importance of tolerance, related to religion. Much of his works related to politics were accepted in England after the Glorious Revolution of (1688–89) and in the United States ...
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