The Lucretius Today Podcast
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Episode 250 - Cicero's OTNOTG 25: The Relationship of "Images" To All Human Thought - Not Just To "The Gods" 5
- Cassius
October 12, 2024 at 5:38 AM
- Cassius
October 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Three: Letter to Herodotus 12 - Events and Time 10
- Cassius
May 20, 2022 at 5:20 PM
- Cassius
October 13, 2024 at 7:17 AM
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Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 29
- Don
April 9, 2022 at 3:23 PM
- Don
October 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2
- Cassius
September 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
- Cassius
October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings 9
- Cassius
September 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
- Cassius
September 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Episode 246 - Cicero's OTNOTG 21 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning 15
- Cassius
September 13, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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September 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10
- Cassius
September 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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September 15, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18
- Cassius
August 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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September 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9
- Cassius
August 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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August 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic? 11
- Cassius
August 17, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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August 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good" 36
- Cassius
August 8, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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August 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5
- Cassius
June 25, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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August 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Episode 240 - Cicero's OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity 7
- Cassius
August 1, 2024 at 1:04 PM
- Cassius
August 6, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth 7
- Cassius
July 25, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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July 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Episode 238 - Cicero's OTNOTG 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making 10
- Cassius
July 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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July 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity 34
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July 11, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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July 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity 4
- Cassius
July 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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July 11, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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Episode 234 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Canonical Basis For the Epicurean View Of Divinity 80
- Cassius
June 18, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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July 7, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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Episode 226 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Epicurean Section 01 - Introduction 16
- Cassius
April 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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June 21, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism 9
- Cassius
June 14, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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June 21, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3
- Cassius
June 8, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Episode 227 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 02 - Velleius Begins His Attack On Traditional Views Of The Gods 75
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May 2, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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June 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Episode 231 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 06 - How would you live if you were certain that there are no supernatural gods and no life after death? 4
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May 31, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Episode 228 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 03 - Velleius Asks "What Woke The Gods To Create The World?" 8
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May 10, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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May 30, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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Episode 230 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 05 - Velleius Attacks Misplaced Ideas of Divinity 18
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May 23, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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May 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Episode 229 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 04 - Velleius Continues His Attack On Intelligent Design 7
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May 13, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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May 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Episode 224 - Special Reading - The 1429 Letter of Cosma Raimondi 5
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April 20, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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May 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 24
- Cassius
February 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM
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May 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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Episode 225 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 30 - Cicero Argues That Commitment To Virtue Is A Bar To Pleasure 11
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April 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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April 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Episode 223 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 29 - Are Epicureans Undertaking The Exertions Of Life For Nothing More Than A Drop Of Honey? 7
- Cassius
April 9, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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April 18, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Scottish Epicurean Wisdom?
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March 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM - General Discussion
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New Religious Landscape Study from Pew Research 25
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February 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM - General Discussion
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So You Want To Learn Ancient Greek Or Latin? 78
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