Two treatises on civil government

An essay concerning human understanding, 1690

John Locke

The Federalist

Alexander Hamilton

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

Il Principe

Niccolò Machiavelli

A discourse on method

René Descartes

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith

A theory of justice

John Rawls

An enquiry concerning human understanding

David Hume

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich A. von Hayek

Die Metaphysik der Sitten

Immanuel Kant

Phänomenologie des Geistes

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel