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After studying philosophy, medicine, law, mathmateics, and graduating with multiple degrees Locke becomes a very important professor at Oxford College
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Locke read Rene Descartes' Discourse on the Method and likes what he reads. This work includdes the famous quote:
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Locke, who is now Lord Ashley's personal physician, supervises a liver operation that saves Lord Ashley's life and he remarkably lives another 15 years.
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Because of Lord Ashley's involvement in the new british colonies in America Locke is asked to write the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina.
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Locke writes his first draft of Esssay Concerning Human Understanding; in it are ideas on natural law, based partially on the writings of others.
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Locke begins to write and promote the idea of a Social Contract; he may not be the first with the idea but his social status will make the idea popular.
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Locke's ideas about revolution are linked to plots to kill the King. Locke flees to Holland; many that agreed with him and Lord Ashley are arrested for treason and some are killed.
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Locke is welcomed by the new king and returns to England.
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Locke meets and befriends Sir Isaac Newton
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke, is published.
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Locke is appointed to the Bristish Board of Trade and even though his health is failing he is the most influential member
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John Locke dies from a prolonged decline in health
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Thomas Jefferson borrows ideas from Locke in order to write the Declaration of Independence.
