| I have a Ph.D. in political theory, and Edmund Husserl & Rene Descartes are never considered to be political theorists/philosophers. Some of their writings _can be read_ as providing groundwork for later thinkers (as Husserl for, say, Sartre), but they simply are not political thinkers. 'The Federalist' is not a person, but rather three people. Spinoza isn't really a political philosopher either, but if you want to stretch 'political' to include ethics, I suppose that's arguable. The Roman guy I've literally never heard of...which means you might want to consider removing him in favor of, say, Cicero. Odd to include James Mill but not his son, Husserl but not Heidegger, Strauss but not Arendt, Xenophon but not Socrates, both Calvin and Luther, but not Sir. Thos. More, Blackstone (not a philosopher at all, but rather a legal historian) but not Harrington, and no mention of Hooker, Bodin, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Max Weber, Georg Lukacs, Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, Feuerbach... Overall I'd say this is a decent quiz but far too many erroneous inclusions and strange exclusions. And yes, it would be a generally good idea to use the geographical name in use during the thinker's life. |
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