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Episode 357 — "A Brief Word On Sextus Empiricus And The Goal Of Skepticism"

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2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18
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2. Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10
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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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2. Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9
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2. Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism 9
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2. Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness 9
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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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2. Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9
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2. Episode 319 - EATAQ 01 - Epicurean Answers To Academic Questions - Is the Key To Happiness Found In Supernatural Causes and Geometry? 8
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2. Episode 294 - TD24 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence of Pain 8
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2. Episode 228 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 03 - Velleius Asks "What Woke The Gods To Create The World?" 8
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2. Episode 214 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 21 - Cicero Argues For An Ideal View of Friendship and Happiness Which Epicureans Reject 8
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2. Episode 178 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 30 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 01 8
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2. Episode One Hundred Ten - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part 2) 8
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2. Episode Thirteen - Properties, Qualities, And the Trojan War 8
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2. Episode 328 - EATAQ 10 - Sensation - While Neither Right or Wrong - As The Touchstone Of Reality 7
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2. Episode 282 - TD13 - Is A Trifling Pain A Greater Evil Than The Worst Infamy? 7
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2. Episode 268 - Pleasure Is The Guide Of Life (The Role of Pleasure In Life) 7
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2. Episode 240 - Cicero's OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity 7
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

Episode One Hundred Five - More From Torquatus On The Key Doctrines of Epicurus 10

Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

Episode 293 - TD23 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling "Absence of Pain" A "Pleasure" 9

Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings 9

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 163 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 17 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 04 9

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

Episode One Hundred Three - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Three 9

Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9

Episode 319 - EATAQ 01 - Epicurean Answers To Academic Questions - Is the Key To Happiness Found In Supernatural Causes and Geometry? 8

Episode 294 - TD24 - Distinguishing Dogs From Wolves And Pleasure From Absence of Pain 8

Episode 228 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 03 - Velleius Asks "What Woke The Gods To Create The World?" 8

Episode 214 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 21 - Cicero Argues For An Ideal View of Friendship and Happiness Which Epicureans Reject 8

Episode 199 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 08 8

Episode 182 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 34 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 02 8

Episode 178 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 30 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 01 8

Episode 174 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 26 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 03 8

Episode One Hundred Ten - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part 2) 8

Episode One Hundred Seven - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science 8

Episode Twenty-Nine - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All 8

Episode Thirteen - Properties, Qualities, And the Trojan War 8

Episode 328 - EATAQ 10 - Sensation - While Neither Right or Wrong - As The Touchstone Of Reality 7

Episode 282 - TD13 - Is A Trifling Pain A Greater Evil Than The Worst Infamy? 7

Episode 268 - Pleasure Is The Guide Of Life (The Role of Pleasure In Life) 7

Episode 240 - Cicero's OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity 7

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