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This week's featured author pages

Joseph Butler (1692 - 1752) -- Anglican Bishop whose moral philosophy criticises hedonism and provides an alternative which borrows from a number of other approaches

Sir Thomas More (1477 - 1535) -- English statesman and writer

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

James F. Cooper (1789 - 1851) -- influential early American novelist

Averroes (1126 - 1198) -- Islamic philosopher famous for his Aristotelian commentaries