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    2. Upcoming Series: The Lucretius Today Podcast Reviews And Responds To Books One And Two of Cicero's On Ends

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      • August 25, 2023 at 8:11 AM
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    2. Episode 296 - Ancient Criticisms Of Epicurean "Absence of Pain" Echo In The Modern World 1

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    2. Episode 283 - Philosophy For The Millions 1

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    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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    2. Episode Seventy-Seven - Formation of Language and Early Societies 1

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      • July 2, 2021 at 3:44 PM
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    2. Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity 4

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    2. Episode Seventy-Nine - The Cause of the Arising of Belief In Gods 1

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    2. Episode Fifty-Two - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections 1

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      • January 2, 2021 at 11:59 AM
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      • January 10, 2021 at 8:36 PM
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    2. Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1

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      • November 7, 2020 at 11:02 AM
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    2. Episode 287 - TD17 - The Fear of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero and Epicurus Disagree As To Why. 3

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    2. Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1

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      • November 13, 2020 at 8:05 PM
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    2. Episode Thirty-Seven: End of Book Two - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die 1

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      • September 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM
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      • September 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM
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    2. Episode Sixteen - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature 1

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    2. Episode Seventy-Five - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible 1

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      • June 17, 2021 at 9:20 PM
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    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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    2. Episode 292 - TD22 - Is Virtue Or Pleasure The Key To Overcoming Grief? 6

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    2. Episode Fifty-Six - More On The Operation of the Senses - Hearing And Taste 1

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

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    2. Episode Sixty-Four - Due To His Accomplishments, Epicurus Should Be Thought Of As Godlike 1

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

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    2. Episode Forty-Six - Conclusion of the Argument That the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death 1

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    2. Episode Sixty-Eight - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity 1

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      • April 19, 2021 at 11:32 AM
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    2. Episode 297 - TD25 - Is Philosophy At War With Perfume? 2

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    2. Episode Fifteen - Recap Two 1

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    2. Episode 209 - Special Episode - Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy 1

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

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    2. Episode 164 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 18 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 05 1

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    2. Episode 170 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 23 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 03 1

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    2. Episodes of Lucretius Today Podcast at Youtube 1

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    2. Episode Sixty-Three - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 3) 1

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