Chapter VII: John Locke 145

THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN 145
JOHN LOCKE, LIFE AND WRITINGS (1632–1704) 147
1. Student Life (1632–1666) 147
2. As Politician (1666–1683) 148
3. As Philosophical Author (1683–1691) 149
4. As Controversialist (1691–1704) 149
THE SOURCES OF LOCKE’S THOUGHT 150
1. His Puritan Ancestry 150
2. His Training in Tolerance 150
3. The Scientific Influence 151
4. The Political Influence 152
SUMMARY 153
THE PURPOSE OF LOCKE 153
TWO SIDES OF LOCKE’S PHILOSOPHY 155
(a) _The Negative Side――Locke and Scholasticism_ 156
(b) _The Positive Side――The New Psychology and
Epistemology_ 157
LOCKE’S PSYCHOLOGY 158
LOCKE’S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE 160
LOCKE’S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY 162
THE INFLUENCE OF LOCKE 163
THE ENGLISH DEISTS 164
THE ENGLISH MORALISTS 166
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE ENGLISH MORALISTS 168