John Locke (1632 - 1704)
John Locke is an English philosopher and physician whose theories tie with many other great philosophers such as Sir Issac Newton and Immanual Kant. John proposed further ideas to the previous theories of empiricism, the social contract theory, and political liberalism. Locke was grounded in the idea that the mind is just like a blank piece of paper at birth, and that it is knowledge gained from the senses of the world that form who we are. Although it may seem like an obvious statement, it is a deeper look into the fact that every human to exist only knows what they do due one's own experience and reflection of society. A very intelligent idea in one of John's seminal works is in "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding''. Locke argues that all ideas originate from experience and that the mind uses the experiences through reflection. Locke puts the categories of human knowledge into two main types which is sensation and reflection. Sensation allows the human mind