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Hace 2 días · John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
Hace 1 día · Locke derived the fundamental concepts of his political theory from biblical texts, in particular from Genesis 1 and 2 , the Decalogue, the Golden Rule, the teachings of Jesus, and the letters of Paul the Apostle. The Decalogue puts a person's life, reputation and property under God's protection.
Hace 3 días · The American Revolutionary Period (1775–1783) is notable for the political writings of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson. An early novel is William Hill Brown 's The Power of Sympathy, published in 1791.
29 de may. de 2024 · Mary Wollstonecraft (born April 27, 1759, London, England—died September 10, 1797, London) was an English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. She outlined her beliefs in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), considered a classic of feminism.
20 de may. de 2024 · The Communist Manifesto, (“Manifesto of the Communist Party”), pamphlet (1848) written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to serve as the platform of the Communist League. It became one of the principal programmatic statements of the European socialist and communist parties in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
30 de may. de 2024 · Adam Smith, Scottish social philosopher and political economist who is a towering figure in the history of economic thought, best known for his book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), the first comprehensive system of political economy.
29 de may. de 2024 · Immanuel Kant, The Contest of Faculties, in Hans Reiss, ed., Kant: Political Writings, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) (Der Streit der Fakultäten [1798]), 182–83. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.
