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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
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Thomas Hobbes
1588 – 1679Leviathan founded the modern theory of sovereignty and the social contract.
John Locke
1632 – 1704Consent, property and toleration — the template for liberal constitutions.
Adam Smith
1723 – 1790The Wealth of Nations founded economics as a discipline.
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman founded feminist political theory.
John Stuart Mill
1806 – 1873Principles of Political Economy and On Liberty joined markets to individual freedom.
Thomas Troward
1847 – 1916Indian-service judge whose Edinburgh Lectures gave New Thought a systematic metaphysics.
Iris Murdoch
1919 – 1999The Sovereignty of Good returned attention and love to moral philosophy.