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    2. Why Epicurus Railed Against Atheists And Questioned Their Sanity 3

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    2. Alex O´Conners ethical view he calls "Emotivism" 1

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    2. Episode 314 - TD41 - Cicero Challenges Epicurus: Can Pleasures Really Overcome Pains? 2

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    2. "But when we do not feel pain, we no longer need pleasure" 5

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    2. Athenian Political Prejudices 5

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    2. My personal, cursory interpretation of Epicurus. Please feel free to correct me. 4

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    2. Epicurus Was Not an Atomist (...sort of) 2

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    2. Episode 313 - TD40 - Diagnosing When Words Are Empty Of Meaning 4

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    2. Possible use of the Pythagorean exercise called "evening review" for Epicurean purposes. 26

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    2. Cicero Rejects The Swerve But In The End Sides More With Epicurus Than With The Stoics As To "Fate"

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    2. "The Eyes Cannot Discover The Nature of Things" (Lucretius 4:379)

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    2. Defining and Summarizing Epicurean Ethics 4

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    2. The Existence Of The Swerve Does Not Mean That "Anything Is Possible"

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    2. The Intersection Between The Epicurean Movement And Hanukkah 1

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    2. What Is Happiness? How Does Our Conception of It Derive From Eudaemonia and Felicitas? Should Happiness Be The Goal of Life? 18

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    2. How the Epicureans might have predicted Lorentz time dilation 7

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    2. Episode 312 - TD39 - Word Games Are No Substitute For Reality 2

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    2. Latest Article by Elli Pensa - The Epic of Epicurus - Ithaca and the Garden - Dialectic and The Canon 3

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    2. Fourth Sunday Zoom - December 28, 2025 - Epicurean Philosophy Discussion - Agenda 2

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    2. Was Lucretius More "Anti-Religious" Than Epicurus Himself? 4

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    2. Apollo vs Dionysus - The Philosophical Issues and Where Epicurus Fits In 2

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    2. Article By Dr. Emily Austin - "Epicurus And The Politics Of The Fear Of Death" 34

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    2. Epicurus vs Aristotle: the Role of Reason vs Sensation Seeking? 24

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    2. Episode 311 - Is Pain The Only Reason We Should Be Concerned About Any Aspect Of Death And Dying? 2

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    2. Happiness As Not Requiring Complete Absence of Pain 1

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    2. Why Epicurus Railed Against Atheists And Questioned Their Sanity 3

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    2. Alex O´Conners ethical view he calls "Emotivism" 1

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    2. Episode 315 - TD 42 - Not Yet Released 1

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    2. New Posting Of A Video By Raphael Raul "Our Journey From Atoms To Consiousness"

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