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

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      • July 11, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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    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

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      • June 8, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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    2. Episode Sixteen - The Atoms Are Un-Destroyable And Provide Continuity To All Nature 1

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      • April 26, 2020 at 6:09 AM
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    2. Episode Fifteen - Recap Two 1

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      • April 26, 2020 at 4:39 PM
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    2. Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5

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      • August 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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    2. Episode Sixty-Eight - This World Was Not Made By The Gods For Humanity 1

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      • April 19, 2021 at 11:32 AM
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      • April 27, 2021 at 9:48 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 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

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

    2. 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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      • October 22, 2022 at 2:51 PM
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    2. Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1

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      • October 30, 2020 at 10:12 PM
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      • November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM
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      November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM

    2. Episode Sixty-Four - Due To His Accomplishments, Epicurus Should Be Thought Of As Godlike 1

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      • March 25, 2021 at 8:18 PM
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      • March 30, 2021 at 9:10 PM
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      March 30, 2021 at 9:10 PM

    2. Lucretius Today - Episodes of Special Note 3

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      • January 10, 2023 at 1:19 PM
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      • March 29, 2023 at 7:19 PM
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      March 29, 2023 at 7:19 PM

    2. Episode 175 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 27 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 04 3

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      • May 24, 2023 at 10:20 PM
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      May 24, 2023 at 10:20 PM

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

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      • March 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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      • March 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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      March 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM

    2. Episode 193 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03 4

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      • September 18, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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    2. Episode 173 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 26 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 02 4

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      • May 13, 2023 at 10:25 AM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2

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      • June 11, 2022 at 10:01 AM
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    2. Episode Twenty - The Universe Is Infinite In Size 1

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      • May 30, 2020 at 12:16 PM
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    2. Episode 224 - Special Reading - The 1429 Letter of Cosma Raimondi 5

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      • April 20, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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      • May 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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    2. Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth 7

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      • July 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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    2. Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1

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      • January 9, 2021 at 8:48 AM
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      • January 16, 2021 at 6:44 PM
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    2. 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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    2. Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1

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      • September 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM
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      • September 19, 2020 at 1:51 PM
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    2. Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2

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      • August 6, 2021 at 5:19 PM
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      • August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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    2. 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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      October 27, 2024 at 1:20 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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    2. Episode Twenty-Five - The Swerve Part II - As the Basis of Human Agency 1

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

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      • April 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM
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    2. Does The Wise Man Groan and Cry Out When On The Rack / Under Torture / In Extreme Pain? 11

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    2. New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1

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    2. Superstition and Friday the 13th 6

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    2. Epicurean Emporium 9

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    2. The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 2

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