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Episode 287 - TD17 - The Fear of Pain Is Overrated, But Cicero and Epicurus Disagree As To Why. 3
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Episode Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4
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Episode Eighteen - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 4
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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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Episode Twenty-Six - The Atoms Are Not Uniform 4
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Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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Episode One Hundred Thirteen - Letter to Herodotus 02 - Principles of Thinking 4
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Episode One Hundred Sixteen - Letter to Herodotus 05 - More Fundamental Physics 4
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-One - Letter to Herodotus 11 - Atoms, The Soul, And Those Who Are Well Disposed Towards Us 4
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Episode One Hundred Thirty - Letter to Pythocles 04 - More on the Sun and Moon 4
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Nine - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 05 - The Early Years of Epicurus 4
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Episode 150 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 06 - Development of the School in Mytilene and Lampsacus 4
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November 23, 2022 at 8:23 AM
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Episode 171 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 24 - Chapter 11 - Soul, Sensation, and Mind 01 4
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April 21, 2023 at 4:01 PM
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Episode 173 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 26 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 02 4
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Episode 185 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 37 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 08 4
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July 28, 2023 at 8:24 AM
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Episode 192 - Special Edition - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens 4
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September 12, 2023 at 6:47 PM
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Episode 193 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03 4
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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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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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Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity 4
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July 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Episode 260 - The Universe Is Infinite And Eternal And Has No Gods Over It 4
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December 18, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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Episode 262 - He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing 4
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December 29, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Episode 264 - "Bread and Water!!?? Debunking The Myth of Epicurean Asceticism" 4
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Episode 272 - TD02 - Is Death An Evil? 4
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Episode 278 - TD08 - Two Opposite Views On When We Might Be Better Off Dead 4
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Episode 285 - TD15 - The Significance Of The Limits Of Pain 4
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Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5
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Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5
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Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5
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Beyond Stoicism (2025) 16
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August 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM - Epicurus vs. the Stoics (Zeno, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
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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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