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Episode 172 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 25 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 01 6
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Episode 176 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 28 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 05 30
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Episode Thirty-Two: The Atoms Are Colorless, But the Implications Are Not 17
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Episode Seventy-One - The Formation Of the World (Our Part of the Universe) 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 Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20
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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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Episode One Hundred Nineteen - Letter to Herodotus 08 - More On Perception Through The Atoms 18
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Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity 34
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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 One Hundred Six - The Epicurean Attitude Toward Fate / Fortune and the Role of Reason 22
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Episode Thirty-Four - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation 18
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August 29, 2020 at 12:41 PM
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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 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation. 34
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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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August 8, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17
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Episode Sixty-Five - Introducing A New Panelist (Don) and Recapping the Opening of Book Five 14
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Episode 151 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 07 - "The New School In Athens" 20
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Episode One Hundred Fifteen - Letter to Herodotus 04 - Atoms, Void, and Basic Epistemology Issues 15
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Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16
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Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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Episode 200 - Lucretius Today 200th Episode - Retrospective, Recap, and Looking To The Future 17
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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 191 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 02 21
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Episode One Hundred Seventeen - Letter to Herodotus 06 - The Doctrine of Infinity of Worlds And Its Implications 15
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Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 24
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An Epicurean Podcast 12
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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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