2: Thomas More, Christian humanism, Catholicism and Utopia.

3: Machiavelli, Machiavellism and reason of state

4: Bodin, Sovereignty, and Absolutism

5: Hobbes, science, politics, and the state of nature

6: Hobbes and the nature of the state

7. Democracy and Revolution: the English Levellers

8: The law of nature, politics and Pufendorf

9: Theories of property, liberalism, gender and John Locke

10: Limited government, resistance and Locke

11: Towards atheism and materialism? Philosophy, religion, and Hobbes

12: Church-state relations and the rise of toleration

13: The Enlightenment, democracy, and the American Revolution

14: The Rights of Man and the French Revolution

15: What changed between More and Paine?