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Are there Identity Conditions for Spinoza's modes?

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Spinoza's adequate knowledge: Can he avoid being called a dogmatist?

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Which philosophers have left sucessful academic careers to pursue other work?

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Where in the Republic Plato says that disabled people should be put away in some mysterious places?

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25 years of philosophy precisely the ones between Kant and Hegel, philosophy of freedom?

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