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Episode One Hundred Five - More From Torquatus On The Key Doctrines of Epicurus 10
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January 14, 2022 at 10:19 AM
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January 25, 2022 at 2:26 PM
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Episode One Hundred Four - More Torquatus and a Question: Was The Ancient Epicurean Movement A Cult? 45
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January 7, 2022 at 8:18 AM
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January 17, 2022 at 4:22 PM
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Episode One Hundred Two - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Two 30
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December 25, 2021 at 9:42 AM
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Episode One Hundred Three - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Three 9
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December 31, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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Episode One Hundred One - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part One 7
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December 17, 2021 at 6:09 PM
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Episode One Hundred - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place 7
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December 10, 2021 at 10:43 AM
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December 18, 2021 at 8:36 AM
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Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15
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November 26, 2021 at 1:51 PM
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December 16, 2021 at 11:50 AM
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Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22
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December 2, 2021 at 4:05 PM
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Episode Ninety-Seven - The Virtues as Instrumental For Pleasure: Temperance and Courage 16
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November 15, 2021 at 7:39 PM
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December 10, 2021 at 3:17 PM
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Episode Ninety-Six - The Proof That Pleasure (And Not Virtue) Is the Supreme Good 14
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November 10, 2021 at 10:57 AM
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November 20, 2021 at 10:02 PM
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Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20
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November 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM
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November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM
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Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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October 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
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November 6, 2021 at 10:18 AM
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Episode Ninety-Three: Torquatus Leads Us Forward Into Conflict Over Epicurean Ethics 82
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October 18, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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October 30, 2021 at 3:38 PM
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Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5
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October 4, 2021 at 8:40 PM
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October 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM
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Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7
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March 6, 2020 at 3:48 AM
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Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1
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October 17, 2021 at 8:57 AM
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Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6
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September 29, 2021 at 8:59 PM
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Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17
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September 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM
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Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2
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September 17, 2021 at 5:10 PM
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September 25, 2021 at 11:05 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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September 18, 2021 at 9:23 AM
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Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5
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September 3, 2021 at 10:33 AM
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September 6, 2021 at 7:57 PM
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Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6
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August 28, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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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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September 26, 2020 at 10:23 AM
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September 1, 2021 at 4:34 AM
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Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6
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August 21, 2021 at 5:20 PM
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Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7
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August 14, 2021 at 9:21 AM
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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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Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5
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July 31, 2021 at 9:35 AM
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Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10
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August 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM
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Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23
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July 22, 2021 at 9:15 PM
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Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5
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March 9, 2020 at 11:11 PM
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Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5
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May 29, 2020 at 1:50 PM
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Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4
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May 14, 2020 at 8:54 PM
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Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7
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March 22, 2020 at 6:46 PM
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Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15
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January 11, 2020 at 11:58 AM
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Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7
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February 19, 2020 at 5:23 PM
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Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5
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February 24, 2020 at 7:59 AM
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Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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January 26, 2020 at 8:53 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 Seventy-Nine - The Cause of the Arising of Belief In Gods 1
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July 9, 2021 at 4:47 PM
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Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2
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July 3, 2021 at 3:27 PM
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Episode Seventy-Seven - Formation of Language and Early Societies 1
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June 25, 2021 at 8:38 PM
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Episode Seventy-Six - The Rise of Humans and Early Human Society 5
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June 18, 2021 at 6:25 AM
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Episode Seventy-Five - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible 1
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June 9, 2021 at 8:06 PM
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Episode Seventy-Four - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth 1
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June 3, 2021 at 5:09 PM
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Episode Seventy-Three - More on The Sun, The Moon, And Related Astronomical Questions 5
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May 26, 2021 at 9:46 PM
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Episode Seventy-Two - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun 7
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Episode Seventy-One - The Formation Of the World (Our Part of the Universe) 20
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Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2
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Episode Sixty-Nine - The End of Our World 1
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April 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM
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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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«Embraced (Entangled) Forever and Ever» (Post By Elli At Facebook from Dimitri Liantinis - Excerpt From Gemma) 5
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Entertaining Example of Epicurus' Reasons for Rejecting Divination (Nick Of Time - A Short Story Featuring William Shatner) 1
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Looking for constructive feedback on my mostly Epicurean philosophy of life 12
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