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    2. Episode 324 - EATAQ 06 - Is Pleasure The Good, Or The Enemy of The Good? 2

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    2. Comparing the Proof Requirements Of James Randi To Those of Epicurus

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    2. Welcome Cornelius Peripateticus! (A name we'll consider genericly rather than as being a dedicated Aristotelian!) 11

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    2. Sunday March 1, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 184 1

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    2. Sunday February 22, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 174 4

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    2. Episode 322 - EATAQ 04 - Epicurean Moral Outrage Against Socrates 3

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    2. An Analogy That Should Live Forever In Infamy Along With His Ridiculous "Cave" Analogy - Socrates' "Second Sailing" 9

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    2. New Graphic: Epicurus vs. Other Major Philosophies

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    2. Episode 318 - TD44 - In the End It Is Pleasure - Not Virtue - That Gives Meaning To A Happy Life 2

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Key Discussions By Topic

Physics:Canonics:Ethics:
Atoms and Void - Properties, Qualities, Emergence, and Rejection of Atomic ReductionismEpicurean Methods of Reasoning And Determining TruthPleasure As the Highest Good
Epicurean Gods And Life Elsewhere In The Universe(1) Five SensesVirtue As Instrumental To Pleasure
The Impossibility of Life After Death(2) Feeling - Pleasure and PainThe Relationship of Pleasure To Absence of Pain And Disturbance
The Existence of "the Swerve"(3) Anticipations / Preconceptions / ProlepsisEmotion In Epicurean Philosophy
The Universe As Eternal In TimeThe Trustworthiness of the SensesEngagement With The Non-Epicurean World
The Universe As Infinite In SpaceThe Significance of "Images"Agency / Free Will
The Universe As Having No Center Friendship in Epicurean Philosophy
The Impossibility of Infinite Divisibility Justice in Epicurean Philosophy
Epicurean Lifestyle and Self-Improvement

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