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    2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

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      • August 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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    2. Episode 159 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 13 - Chapter 7 - The Canon Reason and Nature 04 5

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      • January 31, 2023 at 7:05 AM
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    2. Episode 212 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 19 - Can "Pleasure" Be Defended In The Public Square? 6

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      • January 27, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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    2. Episode 252 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods? 6

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      • October 26, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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      • October 29, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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    2. Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30 14

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      • November 13, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5

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      • July 16, 2020 at 10:27 AM
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      July 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM

    2. 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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    2. Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5

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      • September 3, 2021 at 10:33 AM
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    2. Episode 204 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 12 - More On The "Jurisdiction" Question 5

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      • December 2, 2023 at 6:32 AM
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    2. Episode 293 - TD23 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling "Absence of Pain" A "Pleasure" 9

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      • July 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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      • August 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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      August 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Thirty Two - Letter to Pythocles 06 - More On The Weather 5

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      • July 30, 2022 at 6:44 AM
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    2. Episode 220 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 27 -Cicero Attacks Epicurus' End-Of-Life Decisionmaking 6

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      • March 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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      • March 31, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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    2. Episode 177 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 29 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 06 6

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      • June 8, 2023 at 7:32 AM
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      June 8, 2023 at 7:32 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Sixteen - Letter to Herodotus 05 - More Fundamental Physics 4

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      • April 9, 2022 at 12:00 PM
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    2. Episode 285 - TD15 - The Significance Of The Limits Of Pain 4

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      • June 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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    2. Episode 221 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 28 -Cicero Alleges Pleasures Of The Mind Cannot Offset Pain In Epicurean Philosophy 6

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      • March 30, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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      April 7, 2024 at 9:05 AM

    2. Episode Twenty-Six - The Atoms Are Not Uniform 4

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      • March 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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      March 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM

    2. 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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    2. Episode Ninety-One - More on Magnetism, and Introduction To Disease And Plagues 6

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      • September 29, 2021 at 8:59 PM
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      October 10, 2021 at 6:16 AM

    2. Episode Seventy-Three - More on The Sun, The Moon, And Related Astronomical Questions 5

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      • June 7, 2021 at 4:58 PM
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    2. Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5

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      • August 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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    2. Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4

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      • July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM
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    2. Episode Seventy-Six - The Rise of Humans and Early Human Society 5

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      • June 28, 2021 at 5:28 PM
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      June 28, 2021 at 5:28 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Thirty - Letter to Pythocles 04 - More on the Sun and Moon 4

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      • July 17, 2022 at 8:11 AM
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      July 17, 2022 at 8:11 AM

    2. 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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      February 21, 2023 at 10:12 AM

    2. Episode 206 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 14 - More On The Nature of Morality 7

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      • December 15, 2023 at 9:12 AM
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      December 23, 2023 at 9:16 PM

    2. Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5

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      • August 6, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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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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      • September 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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    2. Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6

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      • August 28, 2021 at 7:52 AM
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    2. 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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      March 16, 2024 at 10:41 AM

    2. 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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