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  1. General Information And Discussion - Start Here
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  5. Physics - The Nature of the Universe
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  7. Ethics - How to Live As An Epicurean
  8. Epicurean Historical Figures - Biographies of Epicureans from Epicurus To The Present
  9. Ancient Epicurean Texts (300 BC to 300 AD)
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  11. Comparisons With Non-Epicurean Philosophies
  12. History, Locations, and Customs Relevant to Ancient Epicureans
  13. Epicurean Symbolism in Art, Music, Literature, and Poetry

    2. Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 24

      • Cassius
      • February 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM
      • Cassius
      • May 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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    4. Julia

      May 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-Five - Reason Is Dependent On The Senses (Part 2) 56

      • Cassius
      • January 23, 2021 at 10:38 AM
      • Cassius
      • February 8, 2021 at 7:50 AM
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    4. Don

      February 8, 2021 at 7:50 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • January 16, 2021 at 8:01 AM
      • Cassius
      • January 17, 2021 at 1:05 PM
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    4. Cassius

      January 17, 2021 at 1:05 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • February 19, 2021 at 10:26 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 3, 2021 at 8:05 AM
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    4. Don

      March 3, 2021 at 8:05 AM

    2. Episode Fifty-One - The Workings of Images 17

      • Cassius
      • December 24, 2020 at 2:09 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 6, 2021 at 2:17 PM
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    4. Elayne

      January 6, 2021 at 2:17 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • February 5, 2021 at 6:40 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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    4. Don

      February 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-Six - More On The Operation of the Senses - Hearing And Taste 1

      • Cassius
      • January 25, 2021 at 4:58 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 6, 2021 at 6:39 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 6, 2021 at 6:39 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1

      • Cassius
      • January 9, 2021 at 8:48 AM
      • Cassius
      • January 16, 2021 at 6:44 PM
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    4. Cassius

      January 16, 2021 at 6:44 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-Two - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections 1

      • Cassius
      • January 2, 2021 at 11:59 AM
      • Cassius
      • January 10, 2021 at 8:36 PM
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    4. Cassius

      January 10, 2021 at 8:36 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • February 3, 2020 at 8:14 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 14, 2020 at 6:52 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 14, 2020 at 6:52 PM

    2. Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7

      • Cassius
      • October 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM
      • Cassius
      • October 18, 2020 at 4:08 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 18, 2020 at 4:08 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1

      • Cassius
      • December 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM
      • Cassius
      • December 11, 2020 at 9:07 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 11, 2020 at 9:07 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1

      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2020 at 8:05 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1

      • Cassius
      • November 7, 2020 at 11:02 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4

      • Cassius
      • December 11, 2020 at 10:09 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 22, 2020 at 4:56 PM
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    4. Don

      December 22, 2020 at 4:56 PM

    2. 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

      • Cassius
      • October 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM
      • Cassius
      • October 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2

      • Cassius
      • November 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 9, 2020 at 6:24 AM
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    4. Cassius

      December 9, 2020 at 6:24 AM

    2. Episode Forty-Six - Conclusion of the Argument That the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death 1

      • Cassius
      • November 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1

      • Cassius
      • October 30, 2020 at 10:12 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM
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    4. Cassius

      November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM

    2. Episode Forty-Two - The Mind works through the senses; it is a relatively small part of the body; the Mind has more power than the "spirit," but both mind and spirit are mortal 1

      • Cassius
      • October 24, 2020 at 2:48 PM
      • Cassius
      • October 30, 2020 at 9:53 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 30, 2020 at 9:53 PM

    2. Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12

      • Cassius
      • January 26, 2020 at 8:53 AM
      • Cassius
      • July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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    4. Paquin

      July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM

    2. Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6

      • Cassius
      • April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM
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    4. Don

      April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM

    2. Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7

      • Cassius
      • October 19, 2021 at 2:35 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 19, 2021 at 2:35 PM

    2. Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4

      • Cassius
      • July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM
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    4. Cassius

      July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM

    2. Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17

      • Cassius
      • September 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM
      • Cassius
      • September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM
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    4. Cassius

      September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15

      • Cassius
      • November 26, 2021 at 1:51 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 16, 2021 at 11:50 AM
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    4. Kalosyni

      December 16, 2021 at 11:50 AM

    2. Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20

      • Cassius
      • November 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Four (Special) - General Discussion / Recap of Poem 1

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      • October 17, 2021 at 8:57 AM
      • Cassius
      • October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM
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    4. Cassius

      October 18, 2021 at 9:57 AM

    2. Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4

      • Cassius
      • October 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 6, 2021 at 10:18 AM
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    4. Cassius

      November 6, 2021 at 10:18 AM

    2. Episode Ninety-Nine - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part Two) 22

      • Cassius
      • December 2, 2021 at 4:05 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 11, 2021 at 6:08 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 11, 2021 at 6:08 PM

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    2. Did Epicurus Intend To Commit Suicide By Drinking Unmixed Wine On His Last Day? 12

      • Bryan
      • April 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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    2. Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 6

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    2. The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11

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    4. Al-Hakiim von Grof

      April 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM

    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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      • April 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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      April 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM

    2. Preconceptions and PD24 42

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