Johannes Althusius c. 1563 – 1638
Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
Sir Robert Filmer c. 1588 – 1653
Thomas Hobbes (of Malmesbury) 1588 – 1679
René Descartes 1596 – 1650
Gabriel Naudé ( – )
James Harrington (1611 – 1677)
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ( –
John Locke (1632 – 1704)
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza 1632 – 1677
Samuel von Pufendorf 1632 – 1694
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716