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To: Borges

“John Locke is the Father of Liberalism.”

He may have been the father of classical liberalism, but certainly not to modern liberalism - liberalism as it is understood today.


69 posted on 05/30/2009 7:35:30 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress. What is it today?)
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To: ChessExpert

Locke’s materialist philosophy was a big influence on Marx.


71 posted on 05/31/2009 12:52:02 PM PDT by Borges
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