A larger list of political philosophers is intended to be closer to exhaustive. The "Rationalists," mostly in France and Germany, argued all knowledge must begin from certain "innate ideas" in the mind. Listed below are some of the most canonical or important thinkers, and especially philosophers whose central focus was in political philosophy and/or who are good representatives of a particular school of thought. Reviewed by Adrian Blau, King's College London. Major rationalists were Descartes, Baruc… This is especially odd, as there are a wealth of European and Western political philosophy sources from this time period. People often question the relevance of reading political philosophies in modern times; believing that political philosophy is outdated and redundant. How much of Renaissance intellectual history is part of modern philosophy is disputed: the Early Renaissance is often considered less modern and more medieval compared to the later High Renaissance. Devin Stauffer, Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy, University of Chicago Press, 2018, 295pp., $50.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226552903. Modern Political Philosophy: Theories of the Just Society (Pelican) Political philosophy is the study of fundamental questions about the state, government, politics, liberty, justice and the enforcement of a legal code by authority. That is not true. Concepts like (in) justice, liberty, authority, power, (in)equality, civil (dis)obedience and the social contract, which political philosophy studies, are most relevant today. It is Ethics applied to a group of people, and discusses how a society should be set up and how one should act within a society. It is inevitably related to general philosophy and is itself a subject of cultural anthropology, sociology, and the sociology of knowledge. Political philosophy, as distinct from the study of political and administrative organization, is more theoretical and normative than descriptive. By the 17th and 18th centuries the major figures in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics were roughly divided into two main groups. When speaking of Indian political philosophy, most sources tend to point to the Arthashastra, however, I recently realized I have never seen any examples of Indian political philosophy from the Delhi Sultunate or Mughal Empire.