Early moderns tended to think of philosophy as a systematic whole, grounding ethics and physics on metaphysics or logic. But Locke is often thought of as an exception to this. In this class, we will have three goals: (i) to gain an in-depth understanding of the motivations and arguments of Locke's "Essay"; (ii) to see some of the breadth of Locke's corpus, which deals with politics, education, economics and theology as well as what we would call philosophy; and (iii) to see how these fit together into a coherent whole and what the role of epistemology and metaphysics is within that whole. The course is open to advanced undergrads and beginning grad students.