Get to know these famous political thinkers’ (or philosophers)! These people came up with the theories and forms of government. Thus, they created the theoretical background of how our world works politically, socially, and economically!
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was born around June 16th, 1723 in Kirkcaldy. That is a village near the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. His father, also Adam Smith,...
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was born on the Leeward Islands on January 11th, 1755, or 1757. As a child, Hamilton already showed signs of great intelligence....
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel comte de Tocqueville was born on July 29th, 1806, in Paris. As his name suggests, he was born into an aristocratic ...
Aristotle
Aristotle was born in the year 384 BC in Stagira, a city on the Greek northeast coast. His father, Nicomachus, was a court doctor of the Macedonian...
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17th, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts. Then, it was one of the thirteen original American colonies. He was the...
Giovanni Sartori
Giovanni Sartori was born on May 13th, 1924, in Florence, central Italy. During his childhood, he experienced the rise of Fascism and Benito Mussolini...
James Madison
James Madison Junior was born on March 16th, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia, as the oldest of twelve children. Until the age of 18, he grew up on...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28th, 1712, in Geneva, Switzerland. His mother died only nine days after his birth. Hence, his father, a watchmaker,...
John Jay
John Jay was born on December 12th, 1745, in New York City. Then, New York was one of the thirteen colonies of British America. He came from a wealthy...
John Locke
John Locke was born to a Puritan family on August 29th, 1632, in Wrington, England. His father, a lawyer, joined the Parliamentary forces of Oliver...
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was born on May 20th, 1806, in London, United Kingdom. He was the eldest son of the British philosopher, economist, and historian...
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5th, 1818, in Trier, Prussia (today Germany). He was the oldest son of a successful lawyer. Both his parent were...
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27th, 1759, in London, England. She was the second daughter of an abusive, alcoholic father. Besides, he drained...
Plato
Plato was born in Athens, Greece, around the years 428 or 427 BC. His real name was Aristocles. It was a wealthy aristocratic family. Besides, his...
Roger Scruton
Roger Vernon Scruton was born on February 27th, 1944, in Buslingthorpe, England. He grew up with his two sisters and parents in High Wycombe, where...
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was born on January 29th, 1736, in Thetford, England. While his father was a Quaker, his mother was Anglican. The family was middle-class....
