JK Philosophical Praxis : COVID-19 A Boundary Situation

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JK Philosophical Praxis : COVID-19 A Boundary Situation: It cannot be denied that the post-modern humans are living today in an unsatisfactory human condition after the horror of the novel COVI...

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