Contextualizing the Essentials of John Locke’s Natural Philosophy

This paper dwells on Locke's early contributions in the domain of natural philosophy, laying more emphasis on how nature operates as perceived through human observation. It equally focuses on specific stages, notably between the years 1658 to 1664, marked by exhaustive medical studies. These six years interval and more gave Locke the opportunity to meet some key figures and to be acquainted with significant personalities such as Robert Boyle, Thomas Sydenham, and Rene Descartes, who contributed remarkably in influencing Locke's thoughts on natural philosophy and medicine by providing him the possibility of writing semi essays on aspects like diseases, respiration, education, and many others in the subsequent years. The rationale revealed in this paper comprises a re-visitation, reconstruction, and scrutinizing Locke's earlier neglected works constituting the basis of natural philosophy, which have not yet been well investigated, not well interpreted, undigested, and improperly understood.