Political Sciences

Last updated: 2026-04-09

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Philosophical currents

• Natural Law or Iusnaturalism
• German Idealism

The State

• The State
• Evolution and justification of the State

Philosophers of Political Science

Ancient Age (3000–4000 BC – 476 AD)

• Plato (427? – 347? BC)
• Aristotle (384–322 BC)

Middle Ages (476 AD until 1453 or 1492)

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Modern Age (1453/1492 until 1789)

Pre-Industrial Revolution

• Natural-law thinkers:

  • Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)
  • Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
  • John Locke (1632–1656)
  • Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694)

• of the French Enlightenment

  • Montesquieu (1689–1755)
  • Voltaire (1694–1778)
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

Post-Industrial Revolution

• German Idealism

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

• Anarchism

  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865)

• Utopian Socialism and Cooperativism

  • Saint-Simon (1770–1831)
  • Charles Fourier (1772–1837)

• Classical libertarianism

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• Scientific Socialism / Communism / Marxism
  ...

• Contemporary Age (1789 to the present)

Key historical factors in Political Science

• Modern Age (1453/1492 until 1789):
  • England and the Constitutional Monarchy
    • John Lackland and the Magna Carta
    • Origin of Parliament
    • The Civil War and the Glorious Revolution (1642–1689)
  • The French Revolution (1789)
    • The Enlightenment (1680–1800)
    • Causes of the French Revolution
    • Events during the French Revolution
    • Consequences of the French Revolution

Last updated: 2025-01-27

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