John Locke
John Locke
Crystal Sanchez
Mr. Fitz
A. P. Euro/Per. 6
December 1 2005
The 17th century in England was a time of war, taxes, religious intolerance, and political mischief. At the time there was a conflict between Crown and Parliament and the conflicts between Protestants, Anglicans and Catholics. With the defeat of Charles I in 1649 there began a great experiment in governmental institutions including the abolishment of the monarchy, the house of the Lords and ht Anglican Church, and the establishment of Oliver Cromwells Protectorate in the 1650s. After these events England was declared a common wealth. Throughout the 17th century, many of the foremost religious writers had clung to the conviction that God had imprinted on the mind of man certain indelible truths, and that of these ideas the assurance of Gods own existence was at once the clearest and the most important. (G.R. Cragg, p.115)
John Locke was born August 29, 1632 into Protestant parents. Lockes father was a lawyer who served in Cavalry Company on the Puritan side in the early stages of the English civil war (
Locke wrote about psychology, and religious toleration. In 1679, the situation of England was highly volatile, because of this background Locke wrote his most famous works, the two treatises of government (