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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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      • December 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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      • December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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      December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM

    2. Episode 307 - TD35 - How The Wise Epicurean Is Always Happy 2

      • Cassius
      • November 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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      • November 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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      November 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM

    2. Episode 300 - TD28 - An Epicurean Twist On The Legend of King Canute 2

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      • September 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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      • September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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      September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM

    2. Episode 297 - TD25 - Is Philosophy At War With Perfume? 2

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      • August 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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      • September 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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      September 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM

    2. Episode 286 - TD16 - Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than With "Virtue" 2

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      • June 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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      June 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM

    2. Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2

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      • June 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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      June 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM

    2. Episode 279 - TD10 - On "Dying Before One's Time" 2

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      • May 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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      May 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM

    2. Episode 274 - TD04 - Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Does Death Allow The Soul To Ascend To A Better Place? 2

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      • March 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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      • April 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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      April 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM

    2. Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2

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      • September 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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      • October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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      October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM

    2. Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2

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      • January 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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      • January 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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      January 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2

      • Cassius
      • June 11, 2022 at 10:01 AM
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      June 11, 2022 at 10:01 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • September 17, 2021 at 5:10 PM
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      • September 25, 2021 at 11:05 AM
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      September 25, 2021 at 11:05 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • August 6, 2021 at 5:19 PM
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      • August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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      August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM

    2. Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2

      • Cassius
      • July 10, 2021 at 5:59 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      July 10, 2021 at 5:59 PM

    2. Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2

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      • May 15, 2021 at 8:04 PM
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    4. Don

      May 15, 2021 at 8:04 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2

      • Cassius
      • February 19, 2021 at 10:26 AM
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      • March 3, 2021 at 8:05 AM
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    4. Don

      March 3, 2021 at 8:05 AM

    2. Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2

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      • February 5, 2021 at 6:40 PM
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      • February 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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    4. Don

      February 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM

    2. Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2

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      • December 18, 2020 at 8:20 PM
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      • December 27, 2020 at 12:38 PM
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      December 27, 2020 at 12:38 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2

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      • November 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM
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      • December 9, 2020 at 6:24 AM
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      December 9, 2020 at 6:24 AM

    2. Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2

      • Cassius
      • October 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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      • October 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM
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      October 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2

      • Cassius
      • August 30, 2020 at 9:27 PM
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      • September 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM
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      September 15, 2020 at 1:57 PM

    2. Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2

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      • June 27, 2020 at 9:18 AM
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      June 27, 2020 at 9:18 AM

    2. Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2

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      • April 27, 2020 at 10:44 AM
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      • May 9, 2020 at 9:41 AM
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      May 9, 2020 at 9:41 AM

    2. Episode Six - Step One: Nothing Comes From Nothing 2

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      • February 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM
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      • February 19, 2020 at 8:36 PM
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      February 19, 2020 at 8:36 PM

    2. Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2

      • Cassius
      • February 3, 2020 at 8:14 PM
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      • February 14, 2020 at 6:52 PM
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      February 14, 2020 at 6:52 PM

    2. Episode 305 - TD33 - Shall We Stoically Be A Spectator To Life And Content Ourselves With "Virtue?" 1

      • Cassius
      • October 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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      • November 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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      November 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM

    2. Episode 304 - TD32 - Epicurus vs. The Stoics On Strong Emotions 1

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      • October 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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      • October 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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      October 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM

    2. Episode 296 - Ancient Criticisms Of Epicurean "Absence of Pain" Echo In The Modern World 1

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      • August 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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      • August 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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      August 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM

    2. Episode 283 - Philosophy For The Millions 1

      • Cassius
      • May 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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      May 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM

    2. Episode 263 - "All Sensations Are True" 1

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      • January 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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      • January 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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