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Episode 173 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 26 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 02 4
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May 6, 2023 at 6:59 PM
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Episode 193 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03 4
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Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5
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June 25, 2024 at 9:11 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 Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2
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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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Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2
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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 Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1
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June 12, 2020 at 4:18 PM
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Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth 7
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July 25, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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Episode 212 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 19 - Can "Pleasure" Be Defended In The Public Square? 6
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January 27, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2
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December 18, 2020 at 8:20 PM
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Episode 269 - By Pleasure We Mean The Absence of Pain (All Experience That Is Not Painful) 11
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February 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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August 30, 2020 at 9:27 PM
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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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Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2
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May 7, 2021 at 9:03 PM
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Episode 159 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 13 - Chapter 7 - The Canon Reason and Nature 04 5
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January 31, 2023 at 7:05 AM
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Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2
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June 17, 2020 at 3:33 PM
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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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Episode 206 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 14 - More On The Nature of Morality 7
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December 15, 2023 at 9:12 AM
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Episode 220 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 27 -Cicero Attacks Epicurus' End-Of-Life Decisionmaking 6
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March 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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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 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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Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2
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February 19, 2021 at 10:26 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 221 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 28 -Cicero Alleges Pleasures Of The Mind Cannot Offset Pain In Epicurean Philosophy 6
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March 30, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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Episode 204 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 12 - More On The "Jurisdiction" Question 5
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December 2, 2023 at 6:32 AM
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Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2
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November 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM
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Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism 9
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June 14, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Episode 275 - TD05 - Does Motion Provide Evidence For The Existence of God And Divinity Of The Soul? 14
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April 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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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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July 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM - Uncategorized Discussion (General)
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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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July 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM - Hermarchus
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