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Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2
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September 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30 2
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Episode 274 - TD04 - Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Does Death Allow The Soul To Ascend To A Better Place? 2
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Episode 279 - TD10 - On "Dying Before One's Time" 2
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Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2
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May 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Episode 286 - TD16 - Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than With "Virtue" 2
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What Kinds Of Podcasts Should We Target First? 3
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Episode Twenty-Two - Book Two - Epicurean Philosophy As The Only Way To Defeat Fear of Death And Other Errors As To The Goal of Life 3
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June 6, 2020 at 5:12 PM
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Episode Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3
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July 11, 2020 at 11:23 AM
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Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3
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January 16, 2021 at 8:01 AM
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Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3
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July 17, 2021 at 6:28 AM
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Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3
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September 10, 2021 at 12:07 PM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Three - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 3) The Superiority of The Epicurean Viewpoint on "Gods" 3
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October 5, 2022 at 10:51 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Four - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 4) Virtue Not The Highest Good 3
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October 11, 2022 at 5:21 PM
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Lucretius Today - Episodes of Special Note 3
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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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Episode 160 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 14 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 01 3
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January 31, 2023 at 7:19 AM
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Episode 161 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 15 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 02 (Sensations and Not An Empiricist) 3
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Episode 169 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 22 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 02 3
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Episode 175 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 27 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 04 3
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May 21, 2023 at 9:31 AM
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Episode 198 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 07 3
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October 18, 2023 at 7:48 PM
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Episode 208 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 16 - Epicurus Stands For the Truth Rather than Make-Believe 3
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December 30, 2023 at 7:55 PM
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Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3
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June 8, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs? 3
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November 18, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion) 3
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November 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us 3
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December 23, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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Episode 265 - The Deep-Set Boundary Stone - Epicurus and The Perils of Applying the Principles of Geometry to Ethical Philosophy 3
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January 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Episode 266 - The Epicurean Paradigm Shift 3
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February 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Episode 276 - TD06 - Is Memory Evidence For The Divinity Of The Soul? 3
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April 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Episode 280 - TD11 - On Death And Daring To Live 3
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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11
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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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