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| Introduction to the Philosophical Journey: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? | |
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| Overview of the Journey | |
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| Socrates and the Search for Wisdom | |
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| From Plato | |
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| Apology | |
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| From Plato | |
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| Republic | |
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| Plato's Allegory of the Cave | |
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| From Plato | |
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| Republic | |
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| Argument and Evidence: How Do I Decide What to Believe? | |
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| The Search for Knowledge | |
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| Overview of the Problem of Knowledge | |
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| Skepticism | |
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| From Rene Descartes | |
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| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
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| From Rene Descartes | |
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| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
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| Rationalism | |
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| From Plato | |
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| Phaedo | |
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| From Rene Descartes | |
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| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
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| Empiricism | |
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| From John Locke | |
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| An Essay concerning Human Understanding | |
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| From George Berkeley | |
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| A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | |
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| From David Hume | |
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| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | |
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| From David Hume | |
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| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | |
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| From David Hume | |
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| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | |
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| From David Hume | |
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| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | |
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| From David Hume | |
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| A Treatise of Human Nature | |
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| Kantian Constructivism | |
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| From Immanuel Kant | |
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| Critique of Pure Reason | |
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| From Immanuel Kant | |
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| Critique of Pure Reason | |
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| Epistemological Relativism | |
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| From Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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| Beyond Good and Evil | |
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| Rethinking the Western Tradition: Pragmatism | |
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| From William James | |
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| Pragmatism's Conception of Truth | |
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| Rethinking the Western Tradition: Feminist Epistemology | |
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| From Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall | |
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| Women, Knowledge, and Reality | |
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| The Search for Ultimate Reality | |
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| Overview of Metaphysics | |
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| Overview: The Mind-Body Problem | |
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| From Hugh Elliot | |
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| Tantalus | |
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| Dualism | |
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| From Rene Descartes | |
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| Discourse on the Method | |
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| From Rene Descartes | |
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| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
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| From Rene Descartes | |
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| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
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| Physicalism | |
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| From Jeffrey Olen | |
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| Persons and Their World | |
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| Functionalism and Artificial Intelligence | |
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| From Jerry Fodor | |
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| The Mind-Body Problem | |
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| From Marvin Minsky | |
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| Why People Think Computers Can't | |
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| Overview: Freedom and Determinism | |
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| Hard Determinism | |
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| From B.F. Skinner | |
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| Walden Two | |
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| From Samuel Butler | |
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| Erewhon | |
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| From Clarence Darrow | |
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| The Leopold and Loeb Trial | |
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| Libertarianism | |
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| From Richard Taylor | |
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| Metaphysics | |
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| From Jean-Paul Sartre | |
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| Being and Nothingness | |
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| Compatibilism | |
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| From Walter T. Stace | |
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| Religion and the Modern Mind | |
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| The Search for God | |
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| Overview of Philosophy of Religion | |
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| From Peter Kreeft | |
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| Does God Exist? | |
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| The Cosmological Argument for God | |
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| From Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Summa Theologica | |
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| From Richard Taylor | |
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| Metaphysics | |
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| The Design Argument for God | |
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| From William Paley | |
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| Natural Theology | |
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| From David Hume | |
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| Dialogues Concerning Human Religion | |
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| The Ontological Argument for God | |
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| From St. Anselm | |
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| Proslogium | |
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| Pragmatic and Subjective Justifications of Religious Belief | |
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| From Blaise Pascal | |
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| Thoughts | |
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| From William James | |
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| The Will to Believe | |
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| From Soren Kierkegaard | |
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| Selections | |
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| The Problem of Evil: Atheistic and Theistic Responses | |
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| From Albert Camus | |
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| The Plague | |
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| From John Hick | |
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| Evil and the God of Love | |
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| From C.S. Lewis | |
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| The Problem of Pain | |
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| The Search for Ethical Values | |
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| Overview of Ethics | |
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| From Plato | |
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| Republic | |
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| Ethical Relativism versus Objectivism | |
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| From Herodotus | |
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| The Histories | |
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| From Ruth Benedict | |
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| Anthropology and the Abnormal | |
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| From James Rachels | |
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| The Challenge of Cultural Relativism | |
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| Ethical Egoism | |
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| From W. Somerset Maugham | |
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| Of Human Bondage | |
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| From Ayn Rand | |
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| The Virtue of Selfishness | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| From Jeremy Bentham | |
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| An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | |
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| From John Stuart Mill | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| From Alistair Norcross | |
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| Comparing Harms: Headaches and Human Lives | |
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| Kantian Ethics | |
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| From Immanuel Kant | |
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| Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Virtue Ethics | |
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| From Aristotle | |
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| Nicomachean Ethics | |
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| From Confucius | |
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| The Analects | |
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| From Janet Smith | |
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| Moral Character and Abortion | |
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| Rethinking the Western Tradition: Feminist Ethics | |
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| From Marilyn Friedman | |
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| Liberating Care | |
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| The Search for the Just Society | |
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| Overview of Political Philosophy | |
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| The Justification of Government | |
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| From Robert Paul Wolff | |
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| In Defense of Anarchism | |
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| From John Locke | |
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| An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government | |
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| From The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) | |
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| The Question of Justice | |
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| From Plato | |
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| Republic | |
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| From Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Summa Theologica | |
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| From John Stuart Mill | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| From John Rawls | |
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| A Theory of Justice | |
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| From Susan Moller Okin | |
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| Justice, Gender, and the Family | |
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| The Individual and the State | |
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| From John Stuart Mill | |
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| On Liberty | |
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| From Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | |
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| Communist Manifesto | |
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| Civil Disobedience | |
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| From Plato | |
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| Crito | |
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| From Mohandas Gandhi | |
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| Young India | |
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| From Martin Luther King Jr. | |
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| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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| Philosophy and the Meaning of Life | |
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| From Leo Tolstoy | |
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| My Confession | |
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| From Hazel E. Barnes | |
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| An Existentialist Ethics | |
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| Appendix: Reasoning Effectively: What to Do and What Not to Do | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |