- Republic c.380 – 370
- English Philosopher
- Social Contract
- Leviathan 1651
- Political Philosophy
- Empiricist
- Meditations 1641
- Principles of Philosophy 1644
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
- Dutch Philosopher
- Ethics 1677
John Locke (1632 – 1704)
- English Philosopher, graduated Oxford
- Blank slate
- Political Philosophy
- Empiricist
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1690
- Two Treatises of Government 1690
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716)
- German Philosopher
- Best possible world
- Rationalist, together with Descartes and Spinoza
George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)
- Principles of Human Knowledge 1710
- Three Dialogues 1713
David Hume (1711 – 1776)
- Scottish Philosopher
- Scepticism
- Billiard Balls causation example
- ‘Is’ vs ‘Ought’
- A Treatise of Human Nature 1739
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 1748
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals 1751
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778)
- Le Contrat Social 1762
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
- Critique of Pure Reason 1781
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals 1785
- Critique of Practical Reason 1788
- Critique of Judgement 1790
Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832)
- A Fragment on Government 1776
- An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation 1789
Georg W.F. Hegel (1770 – 1831)
- The Phenomenology of Mind 1807
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)
- The World as Will and Representation 1819
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
- A System of Logic 1843
- On Liberty 1859
- Utilitarianism 1863
Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
- Danish Philosopher
- Manifesto of the Communist Party 1848
- Das Kapital 1867, 1885, 1893
- The Principles of Psychology 1890
- The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902
- Pragmatism 1907
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
- German Philosopher
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1883 – 5
- Beyond Good and Evil 1886
- Camel – Lion – Child
Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)
- The Principles of Mathematics 1903
- Principia Mathematica 1910 – 13
- Our Knowledge of the External World 1914
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 1921
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery 1935
- The Open Society and its Enemies 1945
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980)
- French Philosopher
- Existentialism
- Nausea
- Being and Nothingness
- Communism – Stalin
- Existence precedes Essence
A.J. Ayer (1910 – 1989)
- Language, Truth and Logic 1936
Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)
- Algerian
- Existentialism
- Stranger or Outsider 1946
- Myth of Sisyphus
- Philosophical suicide
- Existence precedes Essence
John Rawls (1921 – 2002 )
- A Theory of Justice 1972
