Historical figure · Pearson Edexcel International GCSE revision on Incandio

John Locke

Portrait of John Locke

Father of Liberalism · Philosopher · 1632–1704

The English philosopher whose ideas about life, liberty, and property became the bedrock of liberal democracy.

Why Locke is on Incandio

Incandio is a free revision platform for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE. Its historical figures are the people a student learns from, questions and — where a specification topic is theirs — defends an idea against. John Locke can be questioned here in a dramatised, historically grounded portrayal, and the five-chapter life below is written to be read alongside the course.

Explore the life of Locke — five chapters

  1. A Boy in a Country at War With Itself — Somerset, Westminster and a public execution
  2. The Patron, the Operation and the Plot — Politics, an abscess and exile in Holland
  3. The Mind as an Empty Cabinet — An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  4. Consent, Property and the Right to Resist — Two Treatises of Government
  5. Last Years and Long Consequences — From Essex to the Declaration of Independence

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