Political philosophy/Catalogs

This is a catalog of famous political philosophers, in alphabetical order.

A

• Thomas Aquinas

Nationality: Italian

School: Scholasticism

• Hannah Arendt

Nationality: German

School: Phenomenology

• Aristotle

Nationality: Greek

School: Classical Greek philosophy

B

• Jeremy Bentham

Nationality: British

School: Utilitarianism

• Bernard Bosanquet

Nationality: British

School: Idealism

• Edmund Burke

Nationality: British

School: Conservatism

C

• Cicero

Nationality: Roman

School: Roman philosophy

• Auguste Comte

Nationality: French

School: Positivism

• Confucius

Nationality: Chinese

School: Confucianism

F

• Adam Ferguson

Nationality: Scottish

School: Scottish Moralists

G

• Thomas Hill Green

Nationality: British

School: Idealism

H

• Friedrich Hayek

Nationality: Austrian

School: Austrian economics

• G.W.F. Hegel

Nationality: German

School: German idealism; Hegelianism

• Thomas Hobbes

Nationality: British

School: The Enlightenment

K

• Immanuel Kant

Nationality: German

School: Kantianism; The Enlightenment

• Russell Kirk

Nationality: American

School: Conservatism

L

• Rose Wilder Lane

Nationality: American

School: Libertarianism

• John Locke

Nationality: British

School: Empiricism; the Enlightenment

M

• Niccolo Machiavelli

Nationality: Italian

School: Renaissance philosophy

• Alasdair MacIntyre

Nationality: American

School: Analytic philosophy

• Joseph de Maistre

Nationality: French

School: Conservatism

• Bernard Mandeville
• Karl Marx

Nationality: German

School: Marxism

• John Stuart Mill

Nationality: British

School: Utilitarianism

• Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

Nationality: French

N

• Robert Nozick

Nationality: American

School: Analytic philosophy; Libertarianism

O

• Michael Oakeshott

Nationality: British

School: British idealism; Conservatism

• William of Ockham

Nationality: British

School: Scholasticism

P

• Isabel Paterson

Nationality: American

School: Libertarianism

• Plato

Nationality: Greek

School: Classical Greek philosophy

• Karl Popper

Nationality: British

School: Analytic philosophy; Critical rationalism

R

• Ayn Rand

Nationality: Russian, American

School: Objectivism

• John Rawls

Nationality: American

School: Analytic philosophy

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nationality: French

School: The Enlightenment

• Richard Rorty

Nationality American

School:

S

• Seneca the Younger

Nationality: Roman

School: Stoicism, Roman philosophy

• Peter Singer

Nationality: Australian

School: Analytic philosophy; Utilitarianism

• Adam Smith

Nationality: Scottish

School: the Enlightenment; Classical economics

• Herbert Spencer

Nationality: British

School: Social Darwinism; Positivism

W

• Max Weber
• Simone Weil