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    2. Episode 225 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 30 - Cicero Argues That Commitment To Virtue Is A Bar To Pleasure 11

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      • April 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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    2. Episode 217 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 24 - Does Luck Control Whether An Epicurean Is Happy? 11

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      • March 13, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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    2. Episode 207 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 15 - Does Epicurean Philosophy Lead to Injustice? 11

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      • December 22, 2023 at 5:25 AM
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    2. Episode 190 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 01 11

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      • August 28, 2023 at 8:48 PM
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      • September 9, 2023 at 2:51 PM
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    4. Joshua

      September 9, 2023 at 2:51 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Nine - The Epicurean View of Friendship 11

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      • February 11, 2022 at 7:45 PM
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      • February 18, 2022 at 7:45 PM
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      February 18, 2022 at 7:45 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Two - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 2) 11

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      • March 12, 2021 at 10:06 AM
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      • March 24, 2021 at 10:27 PM
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      March 24, 2021 at 10:27 PM

    2. Episode Thirty-Nine - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot 11

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      • September 29, 2020 at 6:08 PM
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    4. Don

      October 18, 2020 at 12:15 PM

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

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

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

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      • July 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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      July 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM

    2. Episode 222 - Revisiting the Relationship Between Happiness and Pleasure 10

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      • April 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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    4. Bryan

      April 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM

    2. Episode 211 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 18 - Battle Of The Images 10

      • Cassius
      • January 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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      • January 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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    4. Don

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    2. Episode 186 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 38 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 01 10

      • Cassius
      • August 4, 2023 at 11:53 AM
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      • August 18, 2023 at 5:46 PM
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      August 18, 2023 at 5:46 PM

    2. Episode 179 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 31 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 02 10

      • Cassius
      • June 24, 2023 at 8:54 PM
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      June 24, 2023 at 8:54 PM

    2. Episode 156 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin - Part One 10

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      • January 10, 2023 at 12:58 AM
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      • November 1, 2023 at 3:06 PM
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      November 1, 2023 at 3:06 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Six - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 02 - The Three Divisions of Epicurean Philosophy 10

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      • October 24, 2022 at 5:46 AM
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      • November 4, 2022 at 11:20 AM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Thirty-Six - The Letter to Menoeceus 03 - On Death (Part One) 10

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      • August 15, 2022 at 9:06 PM
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      • August 23, 2022 at 4:11 PM
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      August 23, 2022 at 4:11 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Three: Letter to Herodotus 12 - Events and Time 10

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      • October 13, 2024 at 7:17 AM
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      October 13, 2024 at 7:17 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty - Letter to Herodotus 09 - Epicurus' Rejection of Infinite Divisibility 10

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      • April 30, 2022 at 9:46 AM
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      June 22, 2022 at 5:59 AM

    2. 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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      January 25, 2022 at 2:26 PM

    2. Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

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      • August 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM
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    2. Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings 9

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      • September 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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      • September 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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      September 29, 2024 at 4:50 PM

    2. Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9

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      • August 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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      • August 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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      August 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM

    2. Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism 9

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      • June 21, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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      June 21, 2024 at 1:49 PM

    2. Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness 9

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      • February 14, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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      • April 5, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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      April 5, 2024 at 2:23 PM

    2. Episode 183 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 35 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 06 - Honesty 9

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      • July 14, 2023 at 10:27 PM
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      • July 23, 2023 at 11:23 AM
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      July 23, 2023 at 11:23 AM

    2. Episode 180 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 32 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 03 9

      • Cassius
      • June 30, 2023 at 6:37 PM
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      June 30, 2023 at 6:37 PM

    2. Episode 167 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 20 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 02 9

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      • March 25, 2023 at 3:42 PM
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    2. Episode 163 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 17 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 04 9

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    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Six - Letter to Pythocles 01 - Introduction - On The Basic Approach of Epicurean Philosophy 9

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    2. 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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      • January 8, 2022 at 7:42 PM
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    2. Does The Wise Man Groan and Cry Out When On The Rack / Under Torture / In Extreme Pain? 12

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    2. New Translation of Epicurus' Works 1

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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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