Top People in Values
Top Books in Values
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Books/Writings
  • The Rights of War and Peace
    (Available New and Used)
Hugo Grotius
1583 – 1645
Dutch

Polymath. A public figure as well as thinker, author of poetry and tragedies, and lawyer, pioneered the idea of international law.

Contemporaries
1624–1691George Fox
1632–1677Baruch Spinoza
1564–1616William Shakespeare
1623–1662Blaise Pascal
1533–1592Michel de Montaigne
1632–1704John Locke
1542–1591St. John of the Cross
1588–1679Thomas Hobbes
1596–1650René Descartes
1599–1658Oliver Cromwell
1547–1616Miguel de Cervantes
1628–1688John Bunyan
1561–1626Francis Bacon