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This week's featured author pages

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) -- essayist whose works were influential in the development of rationalism

Moses Maimonides (1135 - 1204) -- Jewish philosopher and jurist

Henry W. Longfellow (1807 - 1882) -- nineteenth century American poet

Zeno of Citium (334 - 262) -- founder of the Hellenistic school of Stoic philosophy

Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) -- a renowned economist, Smith was originally a professor of logic and then of moral philosophy