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This week's featured author pages

Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) -- French writer, whose naturalistic short-stories have been highly influential

John Buchan (1875 - 1940) -- Scottish politician and writer

Epictetus (55 - 135) -- Epictetus developed a Stoic ethics and led a life in accordance with them, professing to be indifferent to physical, societal, and psychological pain

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) -- philosopher in the French Revolution who made important contributions to the field of political philosophy

Pietro Pomponazzi (1462 - 1525) -- Italian philosopher who argued, contra the Church, that the immortality of the soul is not rationally demonstrable