>>24689617
This.
>>24691833
>western philosophy
>Enlightenment
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
John Locke, Two Treatises on Government
Hamilton/Jay/Madison, The Federalist Papers
>pre-Enlightenment
Aristotle, Organon
Plato, Republic
Cicero, On the Commonwealth
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Machiavelli, The Prince
There are a lot more in the canon. You can spend time following Immanuel Kant trying to painstakingly reason about morality from first principles. But I'd argue modern scientists and psychologists using empirical methods, like Jonathan Haidt, are far more interesting when it comes to morality. There's also the retarded ones that got everything wrong but are famous and important anyway, like Hegel and Marx.
