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This week's featured author pages

William Godwin (1756 - 1836) -- English writer and philosopher, who believed that, since people acted according to reason, we could live in a society without laws

Philo (300 - 300) -- Alexandrian philosopher

third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671 - 1713) -- originally Anthony Ashley Cooper, Shaftesbury coined the phrase 'moral sense' to describe his philosophy of emphasising the emotional component of morality

Siegfried L. Sassoon (1886 - 1967) -- remembered best for his war poems, Sasoon was also a successful novelist

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