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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 Nineteen - Letter to Herodotus 08 - More On Perception Through The Atoms 18
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Episode One Hundred Nine - The Epicurean View of Friendship 11
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Episode One Hundred Fourteen - Letter to Herodotus 03 - The Starting Point of Physics 5
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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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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-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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Episode One Hundred Forty-Seven - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 03 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus 15
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November 3, 2022 at 9:24 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-One - Proclaiming Epicurus To The World: Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part One) 37
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September 20, 2022 at 6:59 PM
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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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November 17, 2022 at 8:15 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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Episode One Hundred Forty-Five - Part 01 (Chapter 1 of Epicurus And His Philosophy) 17
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October 16, 2022 at 8:17 PM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Eight - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 04 - True Opinions And False Opinions About Epicurus 13
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November 7, 2022 at 7:04 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty Two - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 2) "Reality" 7
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September 28, 2022 at 5:41 AM
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Episode One Hundred Forty - The Letter to Menoeceus 07 - Completion of the Letter 18
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September 11, 2022 at 1:23 PM
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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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Episode One Hundred Fifteen - Letter to Herodotus 04 - Atoms, Void, and Basic Epistemology Issues 15
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March 26, 2022 at 8:13 AM
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Episode One Hundred Eleven - Torquatus Summarizes The Significance of the Epicurus 12
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February 22, 2022 at 10:06 PM
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Episode One Hundred Eighteen - Letter to Herodotus 07 - "Images" - There's More To Them Than Meets The Eye 29
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Episode One Hundred Eight - The Benefits of A Proper Understanding of the Senses and of Natural Science 42
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February 4, 2022 at 8:31 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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Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15
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Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5
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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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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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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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Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6
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Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22
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Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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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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Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11
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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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