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This week's featured author pages

Seamus J. Heaney (1939 - 0) -- Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner

David Hume (1711 - 1776) -- great eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher who sought to reveal the limitations of reason, and in doing so reached famous sceptical conclusions

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980) -- also a playwright, novelist, and critic, all of Sartre's work is touched by his existential worldview

John Austin (1790 - 1859) -- jurisprude and lawyer who advanced Bentham's model of legal positivism

Seneca (4 - 65) -- Roman statesman, tragic poet, and Stoic philosopher; one of the leading writers in the Silver Age of Latin literature