My name is John Locke. I was on born on the 29th of August in 1632. The place of my birth was a town called Wrington in Somerst, England. My parents were both devote Puritans. My father was a country lawyer, and during the English civil war he was as a captain. I was able to receive a fantastic education because of my father's ties to the government. In 1647 I went to Westminster in London for schooling. When I was there I was honored to be named a King's Scholar, not many people were able to receive such an honor only the most brilliant boys. I then continued my education  at Christ Church, University of Oxford in 1652. There I studied medicine and also became educated in philosophy such as metaphysics. Thanks to all of my schooling I was able to become a philosopher. Now allow me to tell you about my philosophies.

I believe in a blank slate, by this I mean that everybody is born innocent. When we're born we do not have knowledge of anything. This lead me to believe in empiricism. Empiricism is that all human learns are from our senses. There is simple and complex knowledge. Simple knowledge are the core things humans learn from their senses. Complex knowledge is simple knowledge added together to make something complex.

People know me best for writing Two Treatises of Government. In that essay I wrote about separation of power, and that people should form a government to protect their natural rights. If the government fails at providing natural rights to their people the people have the right to overthrow the government.