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Ancient, medieval and early modern * Hammurabi (died c. 1750 BCE) * Confucius (551-479 BCE) * Socrates (470-399 BCE) * Mozi (470-390 BCE) * Xenophon (427-355 BCE) * Plato (427-347 BCE) * Diogenes of Sinope (412-323 BCE) * Aeschines (389-314 BCE) * Aristotle (384-322 BCE) * Mencius (372-289 BCE) * Chanakya (350-283 BCE) * Xun Zi (310-237 BCE) * Thiruvalluvar (c. 200 BCE-c. 30 BCE) * Han Feizi (?-233 BCE) * Cicero (106-43 BCE) * Pliny the Younger (63-113 CE) * Saint Augustine (354-430 CE) * Muhammad al-Shaybani (749-805) * Al-Farabi (870-950) * Ghazali (1058–1111) * Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126–1198) * Al-Mawardi (972–1058) * Maimonides (1135–1204) * St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) * Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328) * Marsilius of Padua (1270–1342) * William of Ockham (1285–1349) * Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) * Christine de Pizan (1363–1434) * Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) * Martin Luther (1483–1546) * Thomas Muntzer (1490–1525) * John Calvin (1509–1564) * Richard Hooker (1554–1600) | Modern (born pre-19th century) * Jean Bodin (1530–1596) * Francis Bacon (1561–1626) * Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) * Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) * James Harrington (1611–1677) * John Locke (1632–1704) * Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) * Montesquieu (1689–1755) * François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (1694–1778) * Shah Waliullah (1703–1763) * Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792) * David Hume (1711–1776) * Frederick the Great (Frederick II) (1712–1786) * Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1788) * Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) * William Blackstone (1723–1780) * Adam Smith (1723–1790) * Edmund Burke (1729–1797) * Thomas Paine (1737–1809) * Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) * Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) * James Madison (1751–1836) * William Godwin (1756–1836) * Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) * Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825) * Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) * Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) * Georg W. F.
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