History of Political Philosophy

This course is being offered to members of the University of the Third Age in Worthing. Please feel free to use the material on your own courses. I can also supply you with the primary sources that go with the sessions.

(1) Socrates (c. 470 - 399 BC)

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(2) Plato (c 428 - c.348 BC)

(3) Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

(4) Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)

(5) Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

(6) Jesus (c. 4 BC - c. 33 AD)

(7) Seneca (2 BC - 65 AD)

(8) Paul of Tarsus (c. 5 AD - c. 65 AD)

(9) Justin Martyr (100 AD - 165 AD)

(10) Marcus Aurelius (121 AD - 180 AD)

(11) Celsus (c. 140 AD - c. 185 AD)

(12) Plotinus (c. 204 AD - 270 AD)

(13) Mani (c. 209 AD - 274 AD)

(14) Augustine of Hippo (354 AD - 430 AD)

(15) John of Salisbury (c. 1110 - 1180)

(16) Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 - 1274)

(17) Roger Bacon (c. 1219 – c. 1292)

(18) John Wycliffe (c. 1325 - 1384)

(19) John Ball (c. 1340 - 1381)

(20) Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536)

(21) Martin Luther (1483–1546)

(22) Thomas More (1478–1535)

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(23) Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

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(24) John Calvin (1509–1564)

(25) Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

(26) René Descartes (1596–1650)

(27) Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

(28) Gerrard Winstanley (1609 - 1676)

(29) John Lilburne (c. 1615 - 1657)

(30) Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

(31) George Fox (1624 - 1691)

(32) Robert Boyle (1627–1691)

(33) Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)

(34) John Locke (1632–1704)

(35) Isaac Newton (1643–1727)

(36) Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1885)