Editing John Locke (section)

==Early life==
Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched [[cottage]] by the church in [[Wrington]], [[Somerset]], about {{convert|12|mile}} from [[Bristol]]. He was [[baptism|baptised]] the same day, as both of his parents were [[Puritans]]. Locke's father, also named John, was an attorney who served as clerk to the [[Justice of the peace|Justices of the Peace]] in [[Chew Magna]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Broad|first=C. D.|year=2000|title=Ethics And the History of Philosophy|location=UK|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-22530-4}}</ref> and as a captain of [[cavalry]] for the [[roundhead|Parliamentarian]] forces during the early part of the [[English Civil War]]. His mother was Agnes Keene. Soon after Locke's birth, the family moved to the [[market town]] of [[Pensford]], about seven miles south of Bristol, where Locke grew up in a rural [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]] house in [[Belluton]].

In 1647, Locke was sent to the prestigious [[Westminster School]] in London under the sponsorship of [[Alexander Popham]], a member of Parliament and John Sr.'s former commander. At the age of 16 he was at school just half a mile away from the [[execution of Charles I]]; however, the boys were not allowed to go and watch. After completing studies at Westminster, he was admitted to [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], in the autumn of 1652 at the age of 20. The dean of the college at the time was [[John Owen (theologian)|John Owen]], vice-chancellor of the university. Although a capable student, Locke was irritated by the undergraduate curriculum of the time. He found the works of modern philosophers, such as [[René Descartes]], more interesting than the [[classics|classical]] material taught at the university. Through his friend [[Richard Lower (physician)|Richard Lower]], whom he knew from the Westminster School, Locke was introduced to medicine and the [[experimental philosophy]] being pursued at other universities and in the [[Royal Society]], of which he eventually became a member.<ref>{{Citation |last=Uzgalis |first=William |title=John Locke |date=2024 |work=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |edition=Winter 2024 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref>

Locke was awarded a [[bachelor's degree]] in February 1656 and a [[master's degree]] in June 1658.<ref name=sep>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Uzgalis|first=William|orig-date=2 September 2001|date=1 May 2018|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/|title=John Locke|encyclopedia=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]|editor=[[Edward N. Zalta|E. N. Zalta]]|access-date=2 June 2020|archive-date=24 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424195227/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/|url-status=live}}</ref> He obtained a [[bachelor of medicine]] in February 1675,<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger Woolhouse|title=Locke: A Biography|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2007|page=116}}</ref> having studied the subject extensively during his time at Oxford. In addition to Lower, he worked with such noted scientists and thinkers as [[Robert Boyle]], [[Thomas Willis]], and [[Robert Hooke]]. In 1666, he met [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury|Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley]], who had come to Oxford seeking treatment for a liver infection. Ashley was impressed with Locke and persuaded him to become part of his retinue. At Oxford, he was exposed to the writings of Islamic scholars, such as [[Ibn Tufayl]]'s [[Hayy ibn Yaqdhan]] translated by [[Edward Pococke]], who influenced his perspectives on philosophy and ''tabula rasa''.<ref name="et1">{{cite web |title=How Muslims indirectly helped in the American Revolution |url=https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/7692/How-Muslims-indirectly-helped-in-the-American-Revolution |website=EgyptToday |access-date=19 June 2024 |date=14 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="ds1">{{cite web |last1=Kalın |first1=İbrahim |title='Hayy ibn Yaqdhan' and the European Enlightenment |url=https://www.dailysabah.com/columns/ibrahim-kalin/2018/03/10/hayy-ibn-yaqdhan-and-the-european-enlightenment |website=Daily Sabah |date=10 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="brill1">{{cite book |last1=Russell |first1=G. A. |title=The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England |chapter=The Impact Of The Philosophus Autodidactus: Pocockes, John Locke, And The Society Of Friends |chapter-url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004247062/B9789004247062-s013.xml |publisher=Brill |access-date=19 June 2024 |pages=224–265 |language=en |date=1 January 1994|doi=10.1163/9789004247062_013 |isbn=978-90-04-24706-2 }}</ref><ref name="lb1">{{cite book |last1=Attar |first1=Samar |title=The vital roots of European enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's influence on modern Western thought |date=2007 |publisher=Lexington books |location=Lanham (Md.) |isbn=978-0-7391-1989-1 }}</ref>