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This week's featured author pages

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) -- by revolutionising the field of biology, Darwin had an immesurable impact on science, philosophy, and literature from the nineteenth century on

George Orwell (1903 - 1950) -- an advocate of democratic socialism, Orwell's social allegories are some of the most powerful critiques of totalitarian societies

Anaximenes (610 - 550) -- one of the three Milesian pre-Socratic 'natural philosophers'

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

Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) -- best known as Jean-Paul Sartre's lover, de Beauvoir was an accomplished novelist, feminist critic, and existentialist philosopher