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John Locke fue un filósofo y médico inglés, ampliamente considerado como uno de los pensadores más influyentes de la Ilustración y comúnmente conocido como el "padre del liberalismo". Sus obras importantes incluyen A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), Two Treatises of Government (1689/90), ambas publicadas de forma anónima, y An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689/90). Su escrito sobre la tolerancia sostiene que la religión es un asunto individual y que las iglesias son asociaciones voluntarias, descartando la coerción y la uniformidad religiosas. Las ideas sobre la separación de la iglesia y el estado se originaron con Sir Harry Vane en los dos panfletos de Vane “Zeal Examined” en 1651 y “A Healing Question” publicado en 1656. Sus Two Treatises on Government argumentan a favor de un gobierno basado en el consentimiento de los gobernados y el derecho a rebelarse contra un gobierno tiránico que ha perdido el consentimiento. Se cree que los Two Treatises influyeron en el lenguaje que Thomas Jefferson eligió al redactar la Declaración de Independencia de julio de 1776 durante la Guerra de Independencia de Estados Unidos.
“But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.”
“Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.”
“And if he be too forward to venture upon his own strength and skill, and perplexity and trouble of a misadventure now and then, that reaches not his innocence, his health, or reputation, may not be an ill way to teach him more caution.”
“Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.”
“"...the church of England, when she baptizes any one, makes him not a Christian [...] the church of England is mistaken, and makes none but socinians Christians"”
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