Розглянуто нові підходи сучасних західних авторів до дослідження філософії Джона Лока. Основна увага зосере- джена на тому, яку роль відіграє релігія у розумінні філософських ідей Д. Лока та яким чином зв"язки з представника- ми тогочасних релігійних течій вплинули на погляди англійського мислителя.
The article deals with the new approaches to John Locke"s studies considered by contemporary western researchers. Special attention was paid to investigation of how religion influences understanding of Locke"s philosophy on the one hand, and how communications with different representatives of religious circles formed some of Locke"s philosophical ideas on the other hand. Also, two radical opposing approaches of philosophical biography are represented in this paper: the antibiograhical trend, also called compartmentalism, which completely rejects the importance of the personal biography of a philosopher in his philosophical concepts, and another, opposite trend - reductionism, according to which any philosophical concept can be understood and explained only in context of personal biography. It must be stressed that both approaches are deemed unappropriated for understanding of John Locke"s legacy, because they oversimplify philosophical context for& a given thinker.
