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This week's featured author pages

Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976) -- German philosopher, who was influential in the development of existentialism

Porphyry (232 - 305) -- Greek philosopher, student of Plotinus and Neoplatonism

Aeschylus (525 - 456) -- one of the three great ancient Greek dramatists

Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) -- the most important philosopher of modern times, Kant argued that man is capable of posessing synthetic a priori knowledge, which is independent of experience; in morality, he proposed the famous 'categorical imperative'

Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) -- prolific English novelist and journalist