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Episode 277 - TD07 - Platonism Says This World Is Darkness But The Next World Is Light - Epicurus Disagrees! 12
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April 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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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 Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3
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January 16, 2021 at 8:01 AM
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Episode 177 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 29 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 06 6
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Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2
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Episode Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3
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July 11, 2020 at 11:23 AM
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Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2
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July 3, 2021 at 3:27 PM
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Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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December 11, 2020 at 10:09 PM
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Episode One Hundred Thirty Two - Letter to Pythocles 06 - More On The Weather 5
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July 22, 2022 at 7:10 PM
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Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2
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February 3, 2020 at 8:14 PM
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Episode One Hundred Thirteen - Letter to Herodotus 02 - Principles of Thinking 4
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March 13, 2022 at 8:29 AM
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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 Twenty-Two - Book Two - Epicurean Philosophy As The Only Way To Defeat Fear of Death And Other Errors As To The Goal of Life 3
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June 6, 2020 at 5:12 PM
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Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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October 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
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Lucretius Today Podcast Interview Questions (Interviews Project Starting 2023) 6
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December 16, 2022 at 8:52 AM
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Episode 218 Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 25 - Can The Epicurean Not Distinguish Between Greater and Lesser Pleasures and Pains? 7
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March 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Episode 162 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 16 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 03 7
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February 14, 2023 at 6:33 PM
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Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9
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August 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10
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September 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Episode One Hundred Sixteen - Letter to Herodotus 05 - More Fundamental Physics 4
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April 3, 2022 at 5:12 AM
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Episode 240 - Cicero's OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity 7
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August 1, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Episode 229 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 04 - Velleius Continues His Attack On Intelligent Design 7
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May 13, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Episode 273 - TD03 - Is The Soul Immortal And Death Actually A Good/ 12
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March 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Episode 184 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 36 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 07 7
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July 17, 2023 at 9:17 AM
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Episode 223 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 29 - Are Epicureans Undertaking The Exertions Of Life For Nothing More Than A Drop Of Honey? 7
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April 9, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Episode One Hundred Thirty - Letter to Pythocles 04 - More on the Sun and Moon 4
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July 8, 2022 at 11:02 AM
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Episode 238 - Cicero's OTNOTG 13 - Velleius Erupts Against Stoic Fate and Supernatural God-Making 10
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July 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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What Kinds Of Podcasts Should We Target First? 3
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Three - Letter to Pythocles 07 - Conclusion Of The Letter 6
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July 30, 2022 at 6:59 AM
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Episode 152 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 08 - The New Education 01 6
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December 6, 2022 at 9:26 AM
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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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