The Lucretius Today Podcast

The Lucretius Today Podcast is a weekly panel discussion and presentation of Epicurean philosophy. Our current podcasters are: Cassius, Martin, Joshua, Kalosyni, and Don. Each episode of the show has a thread below with podcast notes and listener comments. The podcast is available for free subscription at all major podcast sources. For the text of Lucretius read during the first 92 episodes, click here to download the EpicureanFriends Reference Edition of Lucretius. For the full podcast home page click here to go to LucretiusToday.com.

    2. Episode Seventy-Two - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun 7

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Seventy-One - The Formation Of the World (Our Part of the Universe) 20

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2

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    2. Episode Sixty-Nine - The End of Our World 1

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

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    2. Episode Sixty-Seven - Did The Gods Wake Up One Day To Create The Universe? 23

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    2. Episode Sixty-Six - The End of All Things (But Not Of The Universe Itself!) 7

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    4. Cassius

    2. Episode Sixty-Five - Introducing A New Panelist (Don) and Recapping the Opening of Book Five 14

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

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    2. Episode Sixty-Two - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2) 11

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    2. Episode Sixty-One - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 1) 5

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    2. Episode Sixty - Dreams and the Mind's Use of Images 34

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    2. Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 2

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    2. Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2

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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 Fifty-Five - Reason Is Dependent On The Senses (Part 2) 56

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    2. Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3

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    2. Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1

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

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    2. Episode Fifty-One - The Workings of Images 17

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    2. Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2

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    2. Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4

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    2. Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1

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    2. Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2

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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 Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1

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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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    2. Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1

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    2. 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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    2. Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2

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    2. Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7

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    2. Episode Thirty-Nine - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot 11

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    4. Don

    2. Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6

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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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    2. Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1

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    2. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2

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    2. Episode Thirty-Four - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation 18

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    2. Episode Thirty-Three - More on The Implications of the Colorless Atoms 21

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    2. Episode Thirty-Two: The Atoms Are Colorless, But the Implications Are Not 17

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    2. Episode 31 - Continuation of Episode 30, And the Polyaenus Example

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    2. Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9

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    2. Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21

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    2. Episode Twenty-Nine - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All 8

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    2. Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5

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    2. Episode Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3

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    2. Episode Twenty-Six - The Atoms Are Not Uniform 4

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    2. Episode Twenty-Five - The Swerve Part II - As the Basis of Human Agency 1

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    2. Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2

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