Western Political Thought

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Born in 1770, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a philosopher par excellence whose political ideas are most prominently found in […]

Born in Geneva in 1712, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often regarded as an “accidental philosopher” and a highly original thinker. He

John Locke is a renowned English philosopher widely recognized as the “Father of Liberalism”. He stands as one of the

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) stands as one of the most controversial yet foundational figures in the history of Western political thought.

Niccolò Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy. He was born during a tumultuous period of conflict

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a foundational ancient Greek philosopher, widely recognized as both the father of political science and the

Plato is widely recognized as the father of political philosophy, and his insistence on the ‘idea’ as the root of

Confucius, also known as Kung Fu-Tzu or “Master Kung,” was born in 551 BCE and is widely considered China’s first