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Episode 249 - Cicero's OTNOTG 24 - Are The Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness? 29
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Nine - Letter to Pythocles 03 - The Implications Of the Epicurean Position On The Size of the Sun 17
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Episode 168 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 21 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 01 22
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Episode 295 - Plutarch's Absurd Interpretation of Epicurean Absence of Pain 66
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Episode 200 - Lucretius Today 200th Episode - Retrospective, Recap, and Looking To The Future 17
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Episode One Hundred Six - The Epicurean Attitude Toward Fate / Fortune and the Role of Reason 22
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Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good" 36
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Episode Fifty-One - The Workings of Images 17
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Episode 202 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 10 - The Animality Argument 23
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Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20
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Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22
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Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23
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Episode Seventy-One - The Formation Of the World (Our Part of the Universe) 20
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May 15, 2021 at 2:01 PM
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Episode One Hundred Nineteen - Letter to Herodotus 08 - More On Perception Through The Atoms 18
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April 21, 2022 at 5:18 PM
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Episode Thirty-Two: The Atoms Are Colorless, But the Implications Are Not 17
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August 1, 2020 at 1:02 PM
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Episode 216 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 23 - Why Does Epicurus Say Length Of Time Does Not Contribute To Pleasure? 34
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February 24, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Episode Thirty-Three - More on The Implications of the Colorless Atoms 21
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August 21, 2020 at 5:07 PM
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Episode 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation. 34
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January 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15
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Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity 34
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Episode One Hundred Two - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Two 30
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December 25, 2021 at 9:42 AM
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Episode 176 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 28 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 05 30
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Nine - The Letter to Menoeceus 06 - Pleasure Part Two 28
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Episode One Hundred Forty-One - Proclaiming Epicurus To The World: Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part One) 37
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Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Seven - The Letter to Menoeceus 04 - On Death (Part Two) 33
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Episode 172 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 25 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 01 6
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Episode Forty-Two - The Mind works through the senses; it is a relatively small part of the body; the Mind has more power than the "spirit," but both mind and spirit are mortal 1
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Episode One Hundred Eight - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science 42
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Episode Sixty-Seven - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe? 23
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 15
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Boris Nikolsky - Article On His Interest in Classical Philosophy (Original In Russian) 1
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Boris Nikolsky's 2023 Summary Of His Thesis About Epicurus On Pleasure (From "Knife" Magazine)
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