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    2. Plato's Ladder of Beauty from his Symposium 1

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    2. Welcome Alexandriaplatz! 3

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    2. Nietzsche Agreeing With Epicurus That The Senses Do Not Lie

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    2. Happy Twentieth of April 2026

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    2. Recent Discovery of Empedocles Material

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    2. "Self-Evident" Truth

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    2. Innovations/Updates in Epicurus Philosophy 9

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    2. Have PD35 and Vatican Saying 7 been straw-manned? 4

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    2. Sunday April 19, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 346 - More On Void

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      • April 18, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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    2. Episode 330 - EATAQ 12 - In Contrast With Epicurus, The Stoics Opt For Virtue At Any Cost And Make Controversial Claims About The Senses 2

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      • April 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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      April 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM

    2. Commentary On The Principal Doctrines And Vatican Sayings

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    2. Welcome Morgan! 6

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    2. Epicurean Prolepsis / Canonics vs Stoic Katalepsis

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    2. Discussion of Blog Article - "In Troubled Times, Young People Should Turn To Epicurus Rather than The Pope" 6

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    2. Why Emily Austin's "Living For Pleasure" Book Title Is Particularly Apt 5

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    2. Klavan's "Gateway To Epicureanism" (Note: The Title Is Part Of A "Gateway" Series - The Author Himself Is Strongly Anti-Epicurean) 16

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    2. Welcome BrandenOz! 3

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    2. Welcome Aeneadum! 7

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    2. General Analysis of Risk Aversion

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      • April 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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    2. Sunday April 12, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 329 - The Void

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      • April 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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    2. Episode 329 - EATAQ 11 - Cracks In The Academy On Ideal Forms And Virtue Lead To The Emergence of Aristotle, The Stoics, And Epicurus 3

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      • April 17, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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    2. What would Epicurus have thought of going to the moon? 16

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    2. M. Dango's personal outline 4

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    2. Discussion of Article - 25 Mind Viruses Cured By Epicurean Philosophy 2

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      • April 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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    2. Against "Castles In the Air"

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      • April 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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    2. Responding to Aristotle's "Essences" Argument

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      • April 9, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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    2. Epicurus' Response to "Infinite Regress" Arguments 1

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      • April 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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    2. Epicurus' Response to the "Idleness" Argument

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      • April 9, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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    2. Epicurus' Response to the "Master" Argument

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      • April 9, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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    2. The "Liar" Paradox and Epicurus' Response

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      • April 9, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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    2. General Commentary on Logic-Based Arguments Against Epicurean Physics 5

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      • April 9, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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    4. Cassius

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    2. Responding to the Avicenna "Proof of the Truthful" Argument For A Supernatural God 3

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      • April 11, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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    2. Welcome ReiWolfWoman! 13

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    2. How to argue against the Kalam Cosmological Argument? 11

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    2. How do we know that we only get one life? 16

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    2. Acccelerating Study of Canonics Through Philodemus' "On Methods of Inference"

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    2. Analysis of Epicurean Canonics

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    2. Was Epicurus Influenced by Xenophanes? 2

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    2. Episode 328 - EATAQ 10 - Sensation - While Neither Right or Wrong - As The Touchstone Of Reality 7

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      • April 21, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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    2. Sunday April 5, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 305 3

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      • April 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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    2. Is There A "Paradox of Hedonism"? 9

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    2. Welcome Lamar! 5

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    2. Q & A with "A Few Days in Athens" research article author 2

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    2. How "Epicurean" is Diogenes of Oenoanda? 3

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    2. Discussion of Blog Article - "Reality Does Not Require Being Eternally The Same" 22

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    2. Use Of The Term "Metaphysics" In Discussing Epicurus 8

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    2. Connecting Thought With Atoms - Emergence, Downward Causation (From The Macroscopic To The Atomic), and Epicurus 1

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    2. Episode 327 - EATAQ 09 - Intelligent Design vs Emergence 5

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    2. Updated FAQ Entry: Why Should I Care About Epicurean Physics When So Much Science Has Changed In The Last 2000 Years?

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    2. "And With These We Especially Do Battle, And Rebuke Them, As Well As Hating Them For A Disposition Which Follows Their Disordered Congenital Nature...." 2

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    2. Plato's Ladder of Beauty from his Symposium 1

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    2. Welcome Alexandriaplatz! 3

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    2. Nietzsche Agreeing With Epicurus That The Senses Do Not Lie

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    2. Happy Twentieth of April 2026

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    2. Recent Discovery of Empedocles Material

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    2. "Self-Evident" Truth

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    2. Innovations/Updates in Epicurus Philosophy 9

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    2. Have PD35 and Vatican Saying 7 been straw-manned? 4

      • wbernys
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    2. Sunday April 19, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 346 - More On Void

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    2. Episode 330 - EATAQ 12 - In Contrast With Epicurus, The Stoics Opt For Virtue At Any Cost And Make Controversial Claims About The Senses 2

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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
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The Universe As Infinite In SpaceThe Significance of "Images"Agency / Free Will
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