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Eschatology has also been a study shared and theorized on by philosophers. Saint Augustine stressed the allegorical method of interpretation. He was greatly influenced by Origen. He was followed by Ibn al-Nafis and Hegel with their philosophy of history, and, some such as the author Albert Camus in 'The Rebel' and J.G. Merquior, have argued, Karl Marx.
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