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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

Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) -- English clergyman, novelist

Thales (500 - 500) -- reputedly living in the sixth century BC, Thales is traditionally regarded as the first ever philosopher

Roscelin (1125 - 1125) -- French scholastic philosopher and one of the earliest proponents of nominalism

Patrick White (1912 - 1990) -- Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for Literature