Quotations by Locke

As far as this consciousness can be extended backwards to any past action or thought, so far reaches the identity of that person.

• On Nature of the self, their position: Psychological continuity100%

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

• On Nature of rights, their position: Natural rights90%

Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas: how comes it to be furnished? ... To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

• On Source of knowledge, their position: Empiricism95%

Of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.

• On Nature and culture, their position: Culturalism88%

The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided ... he hath mixed his labour with, and thereby makes it his property.

• On Distributive justice, their position: Libertarianism83%

The mind, if it will proceed rationally, ought to examine all the grounds of probability ... and upon a due balancing the whole, reject or receive it, with a more or less firm assent, proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.

• On Ethics of belief, their position: Evidentialism95%