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  1. General Information And Discussion - Start Here
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  5. Physics - The Nature of the Universe
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  7. Ethics - How to Live As An Epicurean
  8. Epicurean Historical Figures - Biographies of Epicureans from Epicurus To The Present
  9. Ancient Epicurean Texts (300 BC to 300 AD)
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  11. Comparisons With Non-Epicurean Philosophies
  12. History, Locations, and Customs Relevant to Ancient Epicureans
  13. Epicurean Symbolism in Art, Music, Literature, and Poetry

    2. Episode 269 - By Pleasure We Mean The Absence of Pain (All Experience That Is Not Painful) 11

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      • February 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
      • Cassius
      • February 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM

    2. Episode 128 - The Twelve Fundamentals of Physics 1

      • Cassius
      • July 3, 2022 at 8:47 AM
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    4. Cassius

      July 3, 2022 at 8:47 AM

    2. 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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    4. Cassius

      October 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM

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

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

      January 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM

    2. Episode 165 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 19 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 01 1

      • Cassius
      • March 8, 2023 at 10:14 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 18, 2023 at 7:29 AM
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      March 18, 2023 at 7:29 AM

    2. Episode 273 - Is The Soul Immortal And Death Actually A Good? - TD03 12

      • Cassius
      • March 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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    4. Bryan

      March 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM

    2. Episode 252 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods? 6

      • Cassius
      • October 26, 2024 at 11:09 AM
      • Cassius
      • October 29, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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    4. Cassius

      October 29, 2024 at 11:02 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

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

    2. Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1

      • Cassius
      • November 7, 2020 at 11:02 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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      November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM

    2. Episode 208 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 16 - Epicurus Stands For the Truth Rather than Make-Believe 3

      • Cassius
      • December 30, 2023 at 7:55 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      January 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • July 16, 2021 at 7:20 AM
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    4. Cassius

      July 16, 2021 at 7:20 AM

    2. Promo And Highlights For The Lucretius Podcast 1

      • Cassius
      • October 26, 2019 at 4:50 PM
      • Cassius
      • April 3, 2020 at 8:47 AM
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      April 3, 2020 at 8:47 AM

    2. Episode 169 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 22 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 02 3

      • Cassius
      • April 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM
      • Cassius
      • April 12, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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    4. Don

      April 12, 2023 at 4:45 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Thirty-One - Letter to Pythocles 05 - Weather Phenomena 1

      • Cassius
      • July 22, 2022 at 9:52 PM
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      July 22, 2022 at 9:52 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • January 2, 2021 at 11:59 AM
      • Cassius
      • January 10, 2021 at 8:36 PM
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      January 10, 2021 at 8:36 PM

    2. Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5

      • Cassius
      • August 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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    4. Kalosyni

      August 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM

    2. Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity 4

      • Cassius
      • July 11, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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      July 11, 2024 at 12:41 PM

    2. Episode 192 - Special Edition - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens 4

      • Cassius
      • September 12, 2023 at 6:47 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 19, 2023 at 1:11 PM
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      September 19, 2023 at 1:11 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • July 2, 2021 at 3:44 PM
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      July 2, 2021 at 3:44 PM

    2. 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

      • Cassius
      • June 8, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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    4. Bryan

      June 8, 2024 at 12:02 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • October 17, 2021 at 8:57 AM
      • Cassius
      • October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM
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      October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2020 at 8:05 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM
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      November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM

    2. Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth 7

      • Cassius
      • July 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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      July 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • November 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM
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      November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • June 17, 2021 at 9:20 PM
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      June 17, 2021 at 9:20 PM

    2. Episode 213 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 20 - No One But You Epicureans Define Pleasure As You Do! Why Do You Disguise Yourselves? 4

      • Cassius
      • January 30, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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      • February 5, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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      February 5, 2024 at 7:16 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Seven: End of Book Two - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die 1

      • Cassius
      • September 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM
      • Cassius
      • September 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM
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    2. Episode 158 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 12 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 03 3

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      • January 19, 2023 at 10:15 AM
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      • January 31, 2023 at 7:01 AM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Four - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 4) Virtue Not The Highest Good 3

      • Cassius
      • October 11, 2022 at 5:21 PM
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      • October 22, 2022 at 2:51 PM
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    2. Episode Fifty-Six - More On The Operation of the Senses - Hearing And Taste 1

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      • January 25, 2021 at 4:58 PM
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      • February 6, 2021 at 6:39 PM
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    2. Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 5

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    2. The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11

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    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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    2. Preconceptions and PD24 42

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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