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Dec 2023
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#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument ...

Alex J O'Connor
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Edward Feser is an American Catholic philosopher, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in California.

He is the author of "Five Proofs of the Existence of God", and in this episode speaks about one of these: the Aristotelean argument from motion.

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