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s05e44 | Live with James Lindsay: Woke Gnosticism and the Oxford Debate

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Corpus Hermeticum Eight Quote, That the Greatest Evil in Man Is the Not Knowing God

The Corpus Hermeticals are worth reading, says Adam Kenny. They explain Marx's economic and philosophic manuscripts. Some of them have been lost or partially lost but it's definitely worth reading books. The answer that I got from people who have read these things was straight up. That's not a question, of course he did. It would be kind of scandalous to find out that Marx translator, you know, plagiarized a crackpot religious book and called it economic theory.

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