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This week's featured author pages

Epicurus (341 - 270) -- a prolific writer, he developed a philosophy which integrated physics and ethics, and founded the Epicurean School

Horace (65 - 8) -- the finest lyric poet in Latin, Horace's works are masterpieces of the Golden Age of Rome.

Abu Nasr al- Farabi (872 - 950) -- Islamic Neo-platonist philosopher

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

Andrea Cesalpino (1519 - 1603) -- Italian physician and pioneering botanist