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This week's featured author pages

Ouida (1839 - 1908) -- English author, pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee

Empedocles (495 - 435) -- Greek philosopher who developed the pluralist tradition by arguing that the world is comprised of four elements

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

Tzu Lao (500 - 500) -- Influential Chinese philosopher who founded Taoism

Lucretius (95 - 52) -- Roman poet who attempted to popularise Epicurean philosophy