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Episode 295 - Not Yet Recorded - Review of Plutarch's "Against Colotes" / That Epicurus Makes A Pleasant Life Impossible 7
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August 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Episode 31 - Continuation of Episode 30, And the Polyaenus Example
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Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5
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Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7
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Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5
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Episode Eighteen - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 4
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Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3
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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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Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6
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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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Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23
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Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6
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Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2
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Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5
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July 31, 2021 at 9:35 AM
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Episode Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4
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March 17, 2020 at 6:42 AM
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Episode Fifteen - Recap Two 1
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April 4, 2020 at 9:22 AM
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Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2
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Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 24
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Episode Fifty-Five - Reason Is Dependent On The Senses (Part 2) 56
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Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3
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Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2
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Episode Fifty-One - The Workings of Images 17
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Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2
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Episode Fifty-Six - More On The Operation of the Senses - Hearing And Taste 1
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Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1
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Episode Fifty-Two - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections 1
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Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2
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Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7
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Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1
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Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1
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Beyond Stoicism (2025) 20
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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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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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