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This week's featured author pages

Avicenna (980 - 1037) -- greatest Islamic philosopher, whose writings also influenced the fields of science and medicine

Thomas de Vio Cajetan (1468 - 1534) -- influential Thomist philosopher, who developed aspects of Aristotle and Aquinas' philosophy

Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689 - 1755) -- French political philosopher

Lucius Apuleius (125 - 200) -- 2nd-century Roman writer and philosopher

Frank Norris (1870 - 1902) -- American novelist