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This week's featured author pagesTheophrastus (371 - 287) -- successor of Aristotle, who developed the latter's philosophy in important respects
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) -- great German philosopher who influenced Karl Marx, and who is famous for his impenetrable writing
John Webster (1578 - 1626) -- leading 17th century English tragedian
William Ockham (1285 - 1347) -- English Franciscan philosopher who argued in favour of nominalism
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'