These discussions helped him to further explore the issues by writing early drafts of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. ... While in Holland Locke continued to work on his magnum opus (masterpiece), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which urged people to base their verdicts on reason and observation. ... During the 1720's, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, two English radical writers, disseminated Locke's political ideas in Cato's Letters, a popular series of essays published in London newspapers, and these essays had the most impact on American thinkers. ...

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After his return to England, he published his first Letter Concerning Toleration. In 1690, he published his most famous work, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Also the Two Treatises on Government and the second of four Letters Concerning Toleration. ... These were called "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." ...

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Later John Locke went to Holland because of there was suspected radicalism in the government while there he wrote the Essay Concerning Human Understanding which examines the nature of the Human mind and the processes by which it sees it sees the world. ...

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Women, like domestic servants, were not considered autonomous human beings; they were nature's 'passive' citizens, and their rights were rendered invisible in the constitutions. ... In the Essai sur l'admissoin des femmes au droit de cite (Essay on the admissions of women to the rights of citizenship), published in July of 1790, he argued the need to expand the principals outlined in the Declarations of the Rights of Man to include the rights of women. He argued that natural rights should be applied to all human beings, without distinctions of gender, because in nature a...

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