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Chesterton regularly disagreed on philosophical matters with which famous playwright?

  • Oscar Wilde

  • William Shakespeare

  • George Bernard Shaw

  • Eugene O'Neill

Answer

Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw regularly disagreed on philosophical matters, such as the nature of good and evil, free will and predestination, and the importance of faith. Chesterton argued that good and evil were absolute and that free will was essential to morality, while Shaw believed that good and evil were relative and that free will was an illusion.
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