THE REMNANT TRUST

Timeline of Individual
Liberty & Human Dignity

Explore the timeline, which has been divided into three ages, to understand the people and ideas that have shaped our Western understanding of human liberty and dignity. All the authors on the timeline have works in the Remnant Trust Collection. Use the time and topic filters to browse to a specific area of interest.

Age I

Cuneiform to the Magna Carta

2500 BCE

Plato

Aristotle

Cicero

Marcus Aurelius Anotninus

Saint Augustine

William D‘Aubigny, Huntingfeld, King John, Delacis, Marshall, Jr.

1215 CE

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Age II

Henry II to the American Revolution

1216 CE

Thomas Aquinas

Marsilius of Padua

Desiderius Erasmus

Niccolo Machiavelli

Martin Luther

William Tyndale

John Calvin

Richard Hooker

Thomas Hobbes

John Milton

Algernon Sidney

John Locke

Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

Benjamin Franklin

David Hume

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Adam Smith

Sir William Blackstone

Edmund Burke

John Adams

Thomas Paine

Thomas Jefferson

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

James Madison

Alexander Hamilton

Mary Wollstonecraft

1776 CE

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Age III

Modern Democracy to Industrialization

1777 CE

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Frederic Bastiat

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alexis Henri Charles Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville

John Stuart Mill

Abraham Lincoln

Frederick Douglass

Henry David Thoreau

Herbert Spencer

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

2023 CE

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