# Locke serves as Censor of Moral Philosophy at Christ Church Date: 1664 ## The fact In 1664 [Locke](/people/john-locke) was Censor of Moral Philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford, and delivered Latin disputations later known as Essays on the Law of Nature. The dated teaching office is not the 1684 expulsion and not the 1689 Essay concerning Human Understanding. John Locke’s documented role is: He held a college teaching office and delivered Latin disputations later printed as essays on the law of nature. The college appointed; he wrote the lectures. Do not twin this with the 1684 expulsion. A 1664 lectureship is not a later deprivation. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. John Locke's documented role is: He held a college teaching office and delivered Latin disputations later printed as essays on the law of nature. The college appointed; he wrote the lectures. ## Context Restoration Oxford still required clerical conformity paths he later refused. Unpublished in his lifetime as a vernacular book, the Latin disputations survive as a received lecture file. Later editors printed them; that print is not 1664 type. Named others on the file: Christ Church colleagues, unnamed students, and later editors of the natural-law essays share the file. The public setting is the file around 1664-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. The instrument stays Locke serves as Censor of Moral Philosophy at Christ Church. The setting of Locke serves as Censor of Moral Philosophy at Christ Church is the public file around 1664-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. ## Evidence and sources Oxford heritage and Britannica independently locate the 1664 censor’s lectures as a Locke teaching instrument. Official: University of Oxford — Christ Church / Locke teaching heritage (https://www.ox.ac.uk/; University of Oxford). Independent: Britannica — John Locke, Oxford and Essays on the Law of Nature (https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke; Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: University of Oxford — Christ Church / Locke teaching heritage (https://www.ox.ac.uk/; University of Oxford). Independent carrier: Britannica — John Locke, Oxford and Essays on the Law of Nature (https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official or archival record: University of Oxford — Christ Church / Locke teaching heritage (https://www.ox.ac.uk/; University of Oxford). ## Significance Improving education-access path: a college moral-philosophy office with surviving disputations. Direct on the teaching role. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated Oxford teaching office put natural-law disputations into a public college file. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. ## What is established and what is not Established: 1664 Christ Church censor’s lectures. Not established: that they were a 1664 English printed book, or that 1684 is this same office. Established: a sourced public record of Locke serves as Censor of Moral Philosophy at Christ Church under 1664-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Locke serves as Censor of Moral Philosophy at Christ Church under 1664-01-01. The contribution type is direct. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with the 1684 expulsion. A 1664 lectureship is not a later deprivation. Mixed effects of Locke serves as Censor of Moral Philosophy at Christ Church are separate paths. Shared responsibility is part of Locke serves as Censor of Moral Philosophy at Christ Church. Naming John Locke does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1664-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. ## People - John Locke: https://factrail.ai/people/john-locke ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke - https://www.ox.ac.uk/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-censor-1664