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  5. Physics - The Nature of the Universe
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  13. Epicurean Symbolism in Art, Music, Literature, and Poetry

    2. Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2

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      • April 27, 2020 at 10:44 AM
      • Cassius
      • May 9, 2020 at 9:41 AM
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    4. Cassius

      May 9, 2020 at 9:41 AM

    2. Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6

      • Cassius
      • April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM
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    4. Don

      April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM

    2. Episode 278 2

      • Cassius
      • April 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
      • Cassius
      • April 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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    4. Cassius

      April 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM

    2. Episode 276 - Is Memory Evidence For The Divinity Of The Soul? - TD06 3

      • Cassius
      • April 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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    4. Cassius

      April 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM

    2. Episode 274 - Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Does Death Allow The Soul To Ascend To A Better Place? - TD04 2

      • Cassius
      • March 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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    4. Cassius

      April 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM

    2. Episode 272 - TD02 - Is Death An Evil? 4

      • Cassius
      • March 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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    4. Joshua

      March 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM

    2. Episode 270 - Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time 48

      • Cassius
      • February 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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    4. Cassius

      March 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • 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 265 - The Deep-Set Boundary Stone - Epicurus and The Perils of Applying the Principles of Geometry to Ethical Philosophy 3

      • Cassius
      • January 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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    4. Cassius

      January 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM

    2. Episode 267 - Virtue Is Not Absolute Or An End In Itself - All Good And Evil Consists In Sensation. 34

      • Cassius
      • January 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
      • Cassius
      • February 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      February 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • January 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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    4. Cassius

      January 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM

    2. Episode 262 - He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing 4

      • Cassius
      • December 29, 2024 at 12:06 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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    4. Eikadistes

      January 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM

    2. Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us 3

      • Cassius
      • December 23, 2024 at 2:25 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 30, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 30, 2024 at 9:05 PM

    2. Episode 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1 12

      • Cassius
      • November 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 6, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 6, 2024 at 4:02 PM

    2. Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs? 3

      • Cassius
      • November 18, 2024 at 2:05 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM

    2. Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30 2

      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM

    2. Episode 254 - The Skeptic Asks: Does Not Epicurus Undermine Religion As Much As Any Outright Atheist? - Cicero's OTNOTG 29 13

      • Cassius
      • November 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 11, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 11, 2024 at 4:42 PM

    2. Episode 253 - How The "Riddle Of Epicurus" FIts Into the Epicurean View of The Gods - Cicero's OTNOTG 28 14

      • Cassius
      • October 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 5, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 5, 2024 at 6:46 PM

    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 251 - Cicero's OTNOTG 26 - How Niagara Falls Helps Us Understand the Flux, the Heap, and the Epicurean Gods 15

      • Cassius
      • October 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
      • Cassius
      • October 27, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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    4. Cassius

      October 27, 2024 at 7:20 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 249 - Cicero's OTNOTG 24 - Are The Epicurean Gods Totally Inactive, And Are We To Emulate Them Through Laziness? 29

      • Cassius
      • October 2, 2024 at 4:16 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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    4. Bryan

      January 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM

    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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    4. Cassius

      October 2, 2024 at 4:09 PM

    2. Episode 246 - Cicero's OTNOTG 21 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning 15

      • Cassius
      • September 13, 2024 at 3:11 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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    4. Cassius

      September 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM

    2. Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10

      • Cassius
      • September 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 15, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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    4. Cassius

      September 15, 2024 at 3:59 PM

    2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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    4. Cassius

      September 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM

    2. 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
      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM

    2. 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
      • Cassius
      • August 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 17, 2024 at 2:31 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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    4. Cassius

      July 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM

    2. Episode 238 - Cicero's OTNOTG 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making 10

      • Cassius
      • July 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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    4. Kalosyni

      July 27, 2024 at 4:43 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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