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This week's featured author pagesThomas Reid (1710 - 1796) -- aiming to replace the 'ideal system' with a system based on 'common sense', Reid was especially critical of Hume's philosophy
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805) -- great German dramatist and lyric poet, who was also an accomplished philosopher and historian
Bruno Bauer (1809 - 1882) -- German writer and historian, whose philosophical position can be described as Left Hegelian
Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856) -- German lyric poet
Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950) -- Political activist, Lawyer, and Poet.