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This week's featured author pages

Joseph Butler (1692 - 1752) -- Anglican Bishop whose moral philosophy criticises hedonism and provides an alternative which borrows from a number of other approaches

Socrates (470 - 399) -- Athenian philosopher who had an incalculable influence on Plato and subsequent philosophy

Virgil (70 - 19) -- Roman poet that sang of the founding of Rome and who would go on to exert an incalculable influence on subsequent literature.

James Curwood (1878 - 1927) -- American novelist, who most of his life in Owosso, Michigan

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) -- Russian-born American novelist, who developed in her fiction a philosophy based on objectivism, which promoted rational self-interest, unregulated capitalism, and absolute individualism