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Dec 2022
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No Compromise 23: Hegel Simplified: The ...

Dr. John D. Wise
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Jenny and I discuss (and try to simplify) our series on Hegel. We begin to discuss the ”Good Hegel,” episode 36 of the Christian Atheist, the second episode of the series. In our series on atheism I discovered that credal atheists represent a very limited threat to theism, both because their intellectual position is weak, being ungrounded, and because what ... Show More
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