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John Locke was an English philosopher and physician who is widely regarded as the ‘Father of Liberalism’ and one of the most significant Enlightenment thinkers. John Locke attended Westminster School and subsequently the University of Oxford’s Christ Church. He studied medicine at Oxford, and it would become a major part of his life. He became a well-known philosopher who wrote on subjects including political philosophy, epistemology, and education. Locke’s writings were crucial to the development of modern Western philosophy.

EARLY LIFE 

• John Locke, an influential philosopher, and physician whose writings had a profound effect on Western philosophy, was born on 29 August 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England. His father was a country lawyer and a veteran of the English civil war, having fought as a captain. 
• Locke was raised by Puritans since both of his parents were Puritans. Locke obtaine