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Feb 2020
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68: MCAT CARS: Shape-Shifting Across Tim...

RYAN GRAY
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In today's MCAT CARS passage, we're looking at history as the interrelation of self-consciousness and society. Is history dead or is it a window to the future?

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https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-history-nobody-gave-a-deeper-answer-than-hegel

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