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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. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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2. Episode 264 - "Bread and Water!!?? Debunking The Myth of Epicurean Asceticism" 4
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2. Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2
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2. Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2
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2. Episode 321 - EATAQ 03 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science 11
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2. Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2
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2. Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3
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2. Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3
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2. Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion) 3
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2. Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2
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2. Episode 169 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 22 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 02 3
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2. Episode 158 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 12 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 03 3
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2. Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2
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2. Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2
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2. Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2
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2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2
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2. Episode 276 - TD06 - Is Memory Evidence For The Divinity Of The Soul? 3
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2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Four - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 4) Virtue Not The Highest Good 3
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2. Episode 278 - TD08 - Two Opposite Views On When We Might Be Better Off Dead 4
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2. Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3
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2. Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2
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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 Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3
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2. Episode 265 - The Deep-Set Boundary Stone - Epicurus and The Perils of Applying the Principles of Geometry to Ethical Philosophy 3
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2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Three - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 3) The Superiority of The Epicurean Viewpoint on "Gods" 3
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2. Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2
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2. Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3
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2. Episode 175 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 27 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 04 3
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2. Episode 192 - Special Edition - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens 4
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2

Episode 264 - "Bread and Water!!?? Debunking The Myth of Epicurean Asceticism" 4

Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2

Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2

Episode 321 - EATAQ 03 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science 11

Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2

Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3

Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3

Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion) 3

Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2

Episode 169 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 22 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 02 3

Episode 158 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 12 - The Canon, Reason, and Nature 03 3

Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2

Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2

Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2

Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2

Episode 276 - TD06 - Is Memory Evidence For The Divinity Of The Soul? 3

Episode One Hundred Forty-Four - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 4) Virtue Not The Highest Good 3

Episode 278 - TD08 - Two Opposite Views On When We Might Be Better Off Dead 4

Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3

Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2

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

Episode Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3

Episode 265 - The Deep-Set Boundary Stone - Epicurus and The Perils of Applying the Principles of Geometry to Ethical Philosophy 3

Episode One Hundred Forty-Three - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 3) The Superiority of The Epicurean Viewpoint on "Gods" 3

Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2

Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3

Episode 175 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 27 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 04 3

Lucretius Today - Episodes of Special Note 3

Episode 192 - Special Edition - Chapter 16 of A Few Days In Athens 4

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