John Locke
1632 – 1704 · United Kingdom · Politics, Philosophy
Consent, property and toleration — the template for liberal constitutions.
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Who shaped John Locke, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Thomas Hobbes
1588 – 1679 · Politics, Philosophy
Locke's Two Treatises rewrites the social contract against Leviathan's absolute sovereign.
Passed the work to3
- Alexander Hamilton
1755 – 1804 · Politics, Economics
Property, consent and limited government pass from the Second Treatise into the Federalist Papers.
- Montesquieu
1689 – 1755 · Politics, Law
Locke's separation of powers becomes Montesquieu's tripartite constitution.
- Voltaire
1694 – 1778 · Literature, Philosophy
Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques carried Lockean toleration and empiricism into France.
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