Jan 14, 2025 · Personal Life: Not Married | No Known Wife or Partner. John Locke, the renowned philosopher and physician, led a life marked by intellectual pursuits rather than romantic relationships.

While it is widely accepted that John Locke never got married, there are some alternative theories about his personal life. Some historians have suggested that Locke may have had a romantic …

To begin, there are at least three questions we can ask about Locke on marriage. First: Why is Locke talking about marriage at all? It was common for seventeenth-century political theorists …

Locke never married nor had children. Locke’s theory of mind has been as influential as his political theory, and is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self. …

John Locke. Born: 29 August 1632 (Wrington, Somerset, England) Died: 28 October 1704 (Essex, England) Biography. John Locke was born in 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, and raised in a …

John and Agnes Locke had been married just over a year when, on 29 August 1632, their first child, John, was born; their second, Peter, died in infancy; and their third, Thomas, was born in …

John Locke, despite his many accomplishments, did not have a family of his own. He never married and did not father any children. Born on August 29, 1632, in a small thatched cottage …

Mar 7, 2011 · In a recent column distinguished Christian ethicist David Gushee of Mercer University invoked the thought of English philosopher John Locke to explain his reaction to …

Jul 11, 2009 · Likewise, defending marital hierarchy posed a problem for John Locke (1632–1704). Locke ties his rejection of political patriarchy to a rejection of the patriarchal family, arguing …

Mar 7, 2007 · Why would any rational lesbian or gay man consent to a government that has the power to discriminate against them based on their sexual orientation? Conservative opposition …

Locke’s theory treats women as having the same kind of freedom, rights, and authority as men. To defend this thesis, we develop a novel argumentative strategy. Our aim is not to argue …

Mar 19, 2007 · Conservative opposition to same-sex marriage in the twenty-first century is functionally equivalent to conservative support for absolute monarchy in the seventeenth …

Dec 1, 2014 · In the 1706 third edition of her Reflections upon Marriage, Mary Astell alludes to John Locke's definition of slavery in her descriptions of marriage.

What is marriage? In an effort to address contemporary society’s disputes over the meanings of these human social institutions, Scott Yenor carefully examines a roster of major and …