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This week's featured author pages

John Rawls (1921 - 2002) -- American political philosopher, whose A Theory of Justice was a profoundly influential restatement of ethics in the social contract tradition

Gaius Julius Caesar (102 - 44) -- Roman politician and military genius, whose Commentaries have left us an astonishing account of his military campaigns

John Austin (1790 - 1859) -- jurisprude and lawyer who advanced Bentham's model of legal positivism

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) -- American novelist whose works were an exploration of human sin, punishment and guilt.

of Cusa Nicholas (1401 - 1464) -- active in the Church and later a cardinal, Nicholas is remembered in philosophy for his teaching on the unknowability of God