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This week's featured author pagesWilliam Ockham (1285 - 1347) -- English Franciscan philosopher who argued in favour of nominalism
Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767 - 1830) -- a leading French liberal who criticised Rousseau and advocated representative democracy
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) -- Playwright, poetess remembered for her wit.
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) -- Bacon, who was also a politician and a lawyer, advocated the founding of human activity on a common methodology of inquiry
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'