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  1. General Information And Discussion - Start Here
  2. Private Section - Includes Level 03 And Above Discussions and 20th Zoom Meeting
  3. The Lucretius Today Podcast and other Projects
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  5. Physics - The Nature of the Universe
  6. Canonics - The Tests of Truth: The Five Senses, Anticipations, and Feelings of Pleasure and Pain
  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 Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4

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      • March 17, 2020 at 6:42 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM
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    4. Cassius

      March 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM

    2. Episode 183 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 35 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 06 - Honesty 9

      • Cassius
      • July 14, 2023 at 10:27 PM
      • Cassius
      • July 23, 2023 at 11:23 AM
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    4. Don

      July 23, 2023 at 11:23 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Fourteen - Letter to Herodotus 03 - The Starting Point of Physics 5

      • Cassius
      • March 18, 2022 at 6:20 AM
      • Cassius
      • March 26, 2022 at 9:56 PM
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    4. Don

      March 26, 2022 at 9:56 PM

    2. Episode 157 - Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin - Part Two 6

      • Cassius
      • January 19, 2023 at 10:13 AM
      • Cassius
      • July 1, 2023 at 12:33 PM
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    4. Bryan

      July 1, 2023 at 12:33 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Two - The Plague of Athens, and the End of the Poem 5

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2021 at 8:40 PM
      • Cassius
      • October 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM

    2. Episode 186 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 38 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 01 10

      • Cassius
      • August 4, 2023 at 11:53 AM
      • Cassius
      • August 18, 2023 at 5:46 PM
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    4. Cassius

      August 18, 2023 at 5:46 PM

    2. Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness 9

      • Cassius
      • February 14, 2024 at 9:41 PM
      • Cassius
      • April 5, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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    4. Bryan

      April 5, 2024 at 2:23 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Four - Letter to Herodotus 13 - Life On Other Worlds, Development of Language, And the Regular Motion of the Stars 5

      • Cassius
      • June 3, 2022 at 9:51 PM
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    4. Cassius

      June 3, 2022 at 9:51 PM

    2. Episode Eighteen - All Things Are Not Made of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water 4

      • Cassius
      • May 18, 2020 at 2:02 PM
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    4. Godfrey

      May 18, 2020 at 2:02 PM

    2. What Kinds Of Podcasts Should We Target First? 3

      • Cassius
      • July 29, 2019 at 10:38 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 11, 2021 at 9:31 AM
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    4. Cassius

      April 11, 2021 at 9:31 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Ten - The Epicurean View of Friendship (Part 2) 8

      • Cassius
      • February 19, 2022 at 2:51 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 25, 2022 at 3:51 PM
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    4. Joshua

      February 25, 2022 at 3:51 PM

    2. Episode 225 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 30 - Cicero Argues That Commitment To Virtue Is A Bar To Pleasure 11

      • Cassius
      • April 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
      • Cassius
      • April 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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    4. Cassius

      April 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM

    2. Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5

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

      July 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM

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

      • Cassius
      • March 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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    4. Cassius

      March 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM

    2. Episode 207 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 15 - Does Epicurean Philosophy Lead to Injustice? 11

      • Cassius
      • December 22, 2023 at 5:25 AM
      • Cassius
      • December 30, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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    4. Cassius

      December 30, 2023 at 5:34 PM

    2. Episode Six - Step One: Nothing Comes From Nothing 2

      • Cassius
      • February 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 19, 2020 at 8:36 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 19, 2020 at 8:36 PM

    2. Episode 211 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 18 - Battle Of The Images 10

      • Cassius
      • January 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM
      • Cassius
      • January 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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    4. Don

      January 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM

    2. Episode 163 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 17 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 04 9

      • Cassius
      • February 21, 2023 at 3:49 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 27, 2023 at 9:33 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 27, 2023 at 9:33 PM

    2. Episode 180 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 32 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 03 9

      • Cassius
      • June 30, 2023 at 6:37 PM
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    4. Joshua

      June 30, 2023 at 6:37 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM
      • Cassius
      • September 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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    4. Cassius

      September 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM

    2. Episode One Hundred Seven - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science 8

      • Cassius
      • January 28, 2022 at 3:32 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 3, 2022 at 4:10 PM
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      February 3, 2022 at 4:10 PM

    2. Episode 167 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 20 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 02 9

      • Cassius
      • March 25, 2023 at 3:42 PM
      • Cassius
      • March 28, 2023 at 10:07 PM
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      March 28, 2023 at 10:07 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • June 7, 2021 at 4:58 PM
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    4. Joshua

      June 7, 2021 at 4:58 PM

    2. Episode Seventy-Six - The Rise of Humans and Early Human Society 5

      • Cassius
      • June 28, 2021 at 5:28 PM
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      June 28, 2021 at 5:28 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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    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Two - Letter to Herodotus 10 - What it Means to "Exist" - Properties and Qualities 7

      • Cassius
      • May 20, 2022 at 8:13 AM
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    4. Don

      May 20, 2022 at 8:13 AM

    2. Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6

      • Cassius
      • August 28, 2021 at 7:52 AM
      • Cassius
      • September 5, 2021 at 5:11 PM
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      September 5, 2021 at 5:11 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • August 6, 2021 at 11:02 PM
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    2. Episode One Hundred Forty Two - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 2) "Reality" 7

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      • September 28, 2022 at 5:41 AM
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      October 10, 2022 at 3:29 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred One - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part One 7

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      • December 17, 2021 at 6:09 PM
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      • December 23, 2021 at 5:12 PM
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      December 23, 2021 at 5:12 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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    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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    2. Preconceptions and PD24 42

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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