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This week's featured author pages

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) -- major figure in the English Romantic movement

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) -- German philosopher, famous for his pessimism

Plotinus (204 - 270) -- philosopher whose writings mark the beginning of Neoplatonism

Ã?mile Zola (1840 - 1902) -- leading figure in the French school of naturalism

Ralph Cudworth (1617 - 1680) -- a representative of the Cambridge Platonists, Cudworth argued extensively against reductivism