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

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

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

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      • December 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM
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      • December 11, 2020 at 9:07 PM
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      December 11, 2020 at 9:07 PM

    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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      • November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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      November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM

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

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      • July 16, 2020 at 10:27 AM
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      • July 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM
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      July 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM

    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
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      May 9, 2020 at 9:41 AM

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

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      • April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM
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      April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM

    2. Episode 329 - EATAQ 11 - Cracks In The Academy Lead To The Emergence of Both Epicurus And Stoicism

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      • April 11, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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    2. Episode 328 - EATAQ 10 - Sensation - While Neither Right or Wrong - As The Touchstone Of Reality 5

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      • April 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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      April 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM

    2. Episode 327 - EATAQ 09 - Intelligent Design vs Emergence 5

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      • March 28, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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      April 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM

    2. Episode 326 - EATAQ 08 - Who Cares About Infinite Divisibility? And Why? 2

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      • March 21, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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      • March 27, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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      March 27, 2026 at 4:35 PM

    2. Episode 325 - EATAQ 07 - The False Platonic Division of The Universe Into A Force Which Causes And That Which The Force Acts Upon 3

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      • March 14, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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      • March 20, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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      March 20, 2026 at 6:46 PM

    2. Episode 324 - EATAQ 06 - Is Pleasure The Good, Or The Enemy of The Good? 2

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      • March 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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      March 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM

    2. Episode 323 - EATAQ 05 - The Pre-Epicurean View: Three Divisions of Philosophy And Three Divisions of Goods 2

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      • February 28, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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      • March 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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      March 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM

    2. Episode 322 - EATAQ 04 - Epicurean Moral Outrage Against Socrates 3

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      • February 20, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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      • February 27, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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      February 27, 2026 at 2:58 PM

    2. Episode 321 - EATAQ 03 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science 11

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      • February 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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      • February 26, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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      February 26, 2026 at 3:32 PM

    2. Episode 320 - EATAQ 02 - Are the Good of A Sheep And The Good of A Man The Same? 2

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      • February 6, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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      • February 13, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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      February 13, 2026 at 6:42 PM

    2. Episode 319 - EATAQ 01 - Epicurean Answers To Academic Questions - Is the Key To Happiness Found In Supernatural Causes and Geometry? 8

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      • January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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      • February 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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      February 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM

    2. Episode 318 - TD44 - In the End It Is Pleasure - Not Virtue - That Gives Meaning To A Happy Life 2

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      • January 24, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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      • January 31, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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      January 31, 2026 at 8:30 AM

    2. Episode 317 - TD43 - The Epicurean "System Of Counterbalancing" In Pursuit Of Pleasure 6

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      • January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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      January 21, 2026 at 4:40 PM

    2. Episode 316 - TD43 - "Happiness Is The Goal Of Life - A Life of Happiness Is A Life Of Pleasure" (Sixth Year Podcast Anniversary) 3

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      • January 10, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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    2. Episode 315 - TD 42 - Preventing Pain From Destroying Happiness 2

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      • January 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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      • January 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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      January 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM

    2. Episode 314 - TD41 - Cicero Challenges Epicurus: Can Pleasures Really Overcome Pains? 2

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      • December 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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    2. Episode 313 - TD40 - Diagnosing When Words Are Empty Of Meaning 4

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      December 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM

    2. Episode 312 - TD39 - Word Games Are No Substitute For Reality 2

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      • December 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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      December 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM

    2. Episode 311 - Is Pain The Only Reason We Should Be Concerned About Any Aspect Of Death And Dying? 2

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      • December 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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      December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM

    2. Episode 310 - TD38 - Neither Happiness Nor Virtue Are Binary States 4

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      • November 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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      December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM

    2. Episode 309 - TD37 - The Error of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind 3

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      • November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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      November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM

    2. Episode 308 - TD36 - Tracing Epicurus' Key Ideas From the Principal Doctrines To The Tetrapharmakon To Cicero's Epicurean Speakers 19

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      November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM

    2. Episode 307 - TD35 - How The Wise Epicurean Is Always Happy 2

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      • November 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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    2. Episode 306 - TD34 - Is A Life That Is 99 Percent Happy Really Happy? 3

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      • November 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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      • November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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      November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM

    2. Episode 305 - TD33 - Shall We Stoically Be A Spectator To Life And Content Ourselves With "Virtue?" 1

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      • October 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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