Lockean

American  

[lok-ee-uhn] / ˈlɒk i ən /

noun

1. an adherent of the philosophy of Locke.

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy of Locke.

Other Word Forms

• Lockeanism noun
• Lockianism noun

Etymology

Origin of Lockean

J. Locke + -an

Example Sentences

Even John Adams’ civic-republican culture seems to have given way to personalistic strains in evangelical Christianity and in the republic’s Lockean heritage.

From Salon

Hill loathed Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose understanding of equality and the General Will challenge the Lockean liberalism and Anglo-American hegemony that Hill claimed to defend.

From Salon

And my suggestion is that on a Lockean basis, government activity is proper to preserve life, liberty and property.

From Salon

“I’m familiar with Lockean theories of possessive individualism,” Voth snaps, cutting through his dean’s bureaucratic niceties; Fitger, meanwhile, refuses to order misspelled dishes on restaurant menus, as he believes “that transparency of meaning and lucid expression traveled hand-in-hand, like Hansel and Gretel through the terrible woods; and furthermore, that carelessness in language—syntactical clumsiness, boneheaded usage, confusion of affect and effect, lie and lay—betrayed a dubiety of purpose.”

From The New Yorker

The American founding asserted that Lockean ideas are universal.

From Seattle Times