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This week's featured author pages

al- Ghazali (1058 - 1111) -- Ash'arite philosopher-theologian

Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767 - 1830) -- a leading French liberal who criticised Rousseau and advocated representative democracy

Xenophanes (560 - 470) -- Pre-Socratic philosopher who was critical of traditional theology and epistemology

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

William Blake (1757 - 1827) -- early visionary poet of the Romantic period