Fathers of international thought: the legacy of political theory

Comparing theories

Classical political thought

Plato (427-347 B.C.)

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Augustine (A.D. 354-430)

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

The seventeenth century: Grotius (1583-1645) ; Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) ; John Locke (1632-1704)

The eighteenth century: Adam Smith (1723-1790) ; David Hume (1711-1776) ; Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) ; Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

The nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) ; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) ; Karl Marx (1818-1883).