the Copernican Turn, The Reformation, the Enlightenment
Machiavelli
Florentine Histories 1520-1525
Castiglione
The Book of the Courtier 1528
Hobbes
Spinoza
Theological Political Treatise 1670
Pierre Bayle
Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet 1682
Locke
Locke Second Treatise on Government 1689
Hume
Treatise on Human Nature 1739-1740
Rousseau
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences 1750
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 1755
The Social Contract 1762
Kant
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics 1783
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals 1785
Critique of Practical Reason 1788
Critique of Judgment 1790
Religion within the Bounds of Reason Alone 1793
Perpetual Peace 1795
Hegel
Science of Logic 1812
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences 1817
Philosophy of Right 1820
All so we can read and evaluate Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History