tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-863336524369281662.post7232455059341544054..comments2023-09-20T07:12:07.398-07:00Comments on Veater Ecosan: "The World About Us": Veaterecosanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12641952897751927118noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-863336524369281662.post-35529850534819390332020-09-22T15:26:59.426-07:002020-09-22T15:26:59.426-07:00You and Clayton aren't connected on Facebook
L...You and Clayton aren't connected on Facebook<br />Lives in London, United Kingdom<br />Sep 6, 2020, 1:39 PM<br /><br />Clayton<br />sent<br />2 weeks ago<br />Hello, Thank you for the excellent biography of John Locke, especially the early years in Pensford. My research is focused on the connection between John Locke and his cousins in New England at the time of the Great Puritan Migration. In 1534, John Locke's ancestor Sir William Locke was made a member of Henry VIII's Privy Council. Sir William was an early convert to Continental Protestantism, punishable by death in England at the time. He was engaged in smuggling English translations of the Bible and Gospels into England, including Protestant tracts for Anne Boleyn to put forward in the King’s Great Matter, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon. 100 years later, another William Locke boarded the ship Planter in 1634 bound for New England. Both John and William were Puritans, from a family with deeply held philosophical beliefs. Given John Locke's interest and contributions to the foundation of America, it is plausible that there was correspondence. If you have any referecnes to this correspondence, could you please reply to this comment? I also have a short (non-academic) paper on the topic if this is of interest. Thank you!Veaterecosanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12641952897751927118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-863336524369281662.post-88559181973066400862017-05-30T10:46:36.666-07:002017-05-30T10:46:36.666-07:0030.5.2017
Locke lived from 1632 to 1704 and is con...30.5.2017<br />Locke lived from 1632 to 1704 and is considered one of the greatest English philosophers. He is also regarded as one of the first 'empiricists' after the style of Rene Descartes, who greatly influenced him; a founding psychologist; a constitutionalist of note; one of the first 'Whigs' - that morphed into the Liberal Party; was a classical scholar and teacher at Christ Church, Oxford; friend, confidant and secretary to the Earl of Shaftesbury, for a short time holding the top government job next to the king; and in his spare time(!) physician, member of the Royal Society, traveller, writer and political manipulator. His works on Human Understanding, Government, health, education and the money supply were not printed and circulated anonymously (1689) until he felt it safe to do so after the 'Glorious Revolution', which he partly engineered, and which created a new (protestant) constitution which enshrined the principles he had advocated. He had long had financial and administative connections to the American colonies, and with Shaftesbury he drafted the constitution of Carolina, which was never actually implemented. However his lasting impact was on the 1776 Constitution itself which virtually reused his words and incorporated them and many of the principles he had enunciated, in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution itself. Not for nothing did Thomas Jefferson regard Locke as one of his trinity of 'greatest men'. (The other two were Bacon and Newton) Yet today few I guess recognise his name let alone appreciate his contribution to the liberties and protections which we have enjoyed, fast being eroded and despised by a powerful clique. Perhaps we all need a crash course in Lockean thinking?Veaterecosanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12641952897751927118noreply@blogger.com