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John Locke

John Locke

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English philosopher whose Letter on Toleration, Two Treatises, Essay, and Board of Trade office reach the public through Gutenberg, SEP, Bodleian, and TNA. Documented harms: printed exclusions of Catholics and atheists, Carolina constitutions of disputed drafting-weight, plantation board. He did not typeset 2001.

Printed toleration with named exclusionsconsent-and-property theory as 1689 books not as a 21st-century partyBoard of Trade as a later colonial-administrative office

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a marble liberal and not a unique author of 1704. The heaviest documented costs in public English are the Letter’s printed exclusions, Carolina constitutions of disputed weight, and Board of Trade office. The offsets are the same Letter as a toleration instrument, the Treatises as a consent-book, and SEP/Bodleian access. He did not file 2001. Editors and archivists did that work. Confidence is high on those pages, medium on unique Carolina coefficients.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

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  • 4 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1664–1700).

Causal path

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  1. PersonJohn Locke
  2. FactThe Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonJohn Locke
  2. FactLocke publishes public letters to Edward Stillingfleet on the Essay
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonJohn Locke
  2. FactBoard papers sit inside a completed plantation-governance file
  3. DriverInstitutional Corruption

Timeline

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  1. 1 January 1700 · Digital Learning Access

    The Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity

  2. 1 January 1697 · Digital Learning Access

    Locke publishes public letters to Edward Stillingfleet on the Essay

  3. 1 June 1696 · Institutional Corruption

    Board papers sit inside a completed plantation-governance file

  4. 15 May 1696 · Institutional Corruption

    Board of Trade service is a completed colonial-administrative office

  5. 1 January 1696 · Fiscal-Policy Sustainability

    Locke joins the 1690s recoinage debate as a completed monetary heading

  6. 1 December 1695 · Fiscal-Policy Sustainability

    Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money is published against debasement

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

24 of 24 linked facts verified, drawing on 11 distinct sources (1664–1700).

Sources include Project Gutenberg, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The National Archives, University of Oxford, University of North Carolina, The Royal Society.

Sources (showing 8 of 11)

  1. 1.Britannica — John LockeEncyclopaedia Britannica
  2. 2.A Letter Concerning Toleration — public EnglishProject Gutenberg
  3. 3.An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — public EnglishProject Gutenberg
  4. 4.Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money — public EnglishProject Gutenberg
  5. 5.The Reasonableness of Christianity — public EnglishProject Gutenberg
  6. 6.University of Oxford research communications on Reeves’s Amarna workUniversity of Oxford
  7. 7.The National Archives — Tudor plague and public order contextThe National Archives
  8. 8.Some Thoughts Concerning Education — public EnglishProject Gutenberg

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 11

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Locke is a printed exclusion and a plantation board, not a marble liberal. Gutenberg Letter at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23772 (opens in a new tab) prints Catholics and atheists outside the proposed peace. SEP toleration at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-toleration/ (opens in a new tab) and political philosophy at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/ (opens in a new tab) mark limits. Two Treatises at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7370 (opens in a new tab) and the Essay at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615 (opens in a new tab) are 1689 public books as later English. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke (opens in a new tab) prints the Board. TNA at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ (opens in a new tab) catalogues plantation-adjacent papers. Cambridge Companion at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-locke/ (opens in a new tab) treats debates. The offsets are also URLs. Bodleian at https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ (opens in a new tab) holds papers. SEP main entry at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ (opens in a new tab) and IEP at https://iep.utm.edu/locke/ (opens in a new tab) are independent. NPG at https://www.npg.org.uk/ (opens in a new tab) is a public face. What the score must not say: that he wrote every Carolina clause as unique autograph; that 1689 HTML is 1689 type; that Board minutes are a unique slave ledger; that toleration has no printed holes. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on the printed Letter/Treatises/Essay and on the Board date, medium on unique Carolina authorship, low on unique later-empire coefficients. Related people are Shaftesbury, Newton, Masham, later editors. 1689 is a cluster of books on different days. 1696 is an office. 2001 is SEP. The useful question is which later public pages still move exclusions, consent-talk, and plantation office under his name. Keep Letter Treatises Board and Carolina on separate dates. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation.

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