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Episode 357 — "A Brief Word On Sextus Empiricus And The Goal Of Skepticism"

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2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18
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2. Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16
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2. Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14
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2. Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20
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2. Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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2. Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82
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2. Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5
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2. Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7
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2. Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1
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2. Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6
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2. Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17
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2. Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2
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2. Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3
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2. Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5
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2. Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6
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2. Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6
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2. Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6
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2. Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7
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2. Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2
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2. Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5
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2. Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10
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2. Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23
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2. Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5
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2. Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5
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2. Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4
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2. Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7
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2. Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15
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2. Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7
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2. Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5
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2. Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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2. Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16

Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14

Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20

Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4

Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82

Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5

Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7

Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1

Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6

Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17

Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2

Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3

Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5

Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6

Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6

Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6

Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7

Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2

Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5

Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23

Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5

Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5

Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4

Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7

Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15

Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7

Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5

Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12

Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3

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