Centuries before neuroscience, the philosopher John Locke distinguished two human faculties, wit and judgment.
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John Locke gave the Founders important ideas that made it into the documents now housed in the National Archives.
Mr. Conway has attracted supporters, including Don Carrington, vice president of the John Locke Foundation, a libertarian-leaning Raleigh, N.
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He makes references to philosophers he studied at Harvard, particularly John Locke and Rousseau and their ideas on freedom.
The largest contributor was Bob Luddy, who is a board member at the John Locke Foundation and at the Civitas Institute.
He was a man of the Enlightenment, a reader of Adam Smith and John Locke as well as of Voltaire and Rousseau.
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John Locke set out to release the individual from the tyranny of religious authorities by enunciating the doctrine of the separation of church and state.
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Christian thinkers such as William Penn, Roger Williams and John Locke would help the church recover its older tradition of toleration, as old as the New Testament itself.
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The speakers are picked by Steven Margolis, the former department chair, and Andrew Taylor, a political-science professor who is a columnist for Carolina Journal, a John Locke Foundation publication.
The success of edge cases such as Amanda Hocking and John Locke serve only to fuel the hopes of hundreds of thousands of people who want to repeat their success.
Stalwarts of the industrial revolution such as Thomas Newcomen, a West Country engineer, rub shoulders with John Locke, a political philosopher, and Edward Coke, a lawyer and jurist who did much to shape the common-law traditions of intellectual property.
As in Turkey, the West will be forced to do hard things like develop a policy of containing rather than engaging Egypt, and of identifying and cultivating forces in Egyptian society that are willing to embrace John Locke, John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith over Hassan al-Banna and Qaradawi.
The Framers of our Constitution drew upon classical notions of legal rights and individual liberty dating back to the Justinian Code, the Magna Carta, and the Two Treatises of John Locke, all of which recognize the importance of property ownership in a governmental system in which individual liberty and the free market are paramount.
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The New-England Primer's first edition antedated by less than a half-dozen years the publication in Britain of John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), a wide-ranging essay on child-rearing practices that highlighted children's capacity for reason and their susceptibility to being molded for life through judicious exposure to books and other influences suited to their capacity.
By recommending that children be introduced to reading by means of some "easy pleasant book, " Locke pointed the way for the creation by England's John Newbery two generations later of a new type of illustrated children's book in which, unrepentantly, amusement shared pride of place with instruction as the publisher's stated goal.
Another Pope-funded organization is the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, which broke off from the Locke Foundation in 2003.
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