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Jun 2021
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PREMIUM-Ep. 272: Fichte's Idealist Theol...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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Continuing on The Vocation of Man (1799), Book II.

We focus on how ethics fits in with Fichte's epistemology in a unified theology with humans literally united (in this world or the next) in a shared, divine Will.

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