Early Modern Political Thought

EARLY MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
"...several critical themes that make these works of significance to contemporary political thought: the legitimacy of political authority, the justification of rights in a political society, the normative content of equality, toleration and the pursuit of individual forms of the good, and the relationship between rationality and morality...." (from course syllabus for Early Modern Political Theory: Machiavelli to Hume, taught by Dimitri Landa, New York University)