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This week's featured author pages

Samuel Clarke (1675 - 1729) -- rationalist philosopher who claimed that moral decisions can be as certain as mathematical ones, and who promoted the work of Isaac Newton

John Scotus Eriugena (810 - 877) -- Irish philosopher in the Middle Ages

George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 - 1824) -- one of the most important and notorious poets of the Romantic era, English-born.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) -- prominent rationalist philosopher who based his metaphysics on the existence of simple immaterial substances called monads

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 - 1958) -- American writer of mystery stories