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Episode 199 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 08 8
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October 28, 2023 at 6:05 AM
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November 4, 2023 at 5:35 AM
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Episode 201 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 09 15
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November 11, 2023 at 1:46 PM
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Episode 202 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 10 - The Animality Argument 23
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November 18, 2023 at 5:16 AM
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Episode 205 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 13 - Addressing Cicero's Contentions On The Nature of Morailty 12
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December 9, 2023 at 3:42 PM
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Episode 207 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 15 - Does Epicurean Philosophy Lead to Injustice? 11
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December 22, 2023 at 5:25 AM
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Episode 208 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 16 - Epicurus Stands For the Truth Rather than Make-Believe 3
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December 30, 2023 at 7:55 PM
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Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2
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January 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Episode 211 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 18 - Battle Of The Images 10
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January 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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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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Episode 213 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 20 - No One But You Epicureans Define Pleasure As You Do! Why Do You Disguise Yourselves? 4
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January 30, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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February 5, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness 9
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February 14, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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Episode 216 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 23 - Why Does Epicurus Say Length Of Time Does Not Contribute To Pleasure? 34
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February 24, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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March 2, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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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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March 16, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Episode 219 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 26 -Cicero Continues His Attack On Epicurus' Position On Pain 13
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March 10, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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April 5, 2024 at 3:55 AM
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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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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
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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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April 18, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Episode 225 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 30 - Cicero Argues That Commitment To Virtue Is A Bar To Pleasure 11
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April 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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Episode 226 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Epicurean Section 01 - Introduction 16
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April 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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June 21, 2024 at 5:40 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 231 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 06 - How would you live if you were certain that there are no supernatural gods and no life after death? 4
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May 31, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3
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June 8, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Episode 233 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 08 - An Epicurean Attack On The False God Of Stoicism 9
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June 14, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Episode 234 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 09 - Dealing With Marcus Aurelius And The Canonical Basis For the Epicurean View Of Divinity 80
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June 18, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5
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June 25, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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Episode 236 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 11 - Lucretian Support For Velleius' Views of Epicurean Divinity 4
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July 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Episode 237 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 12 - Isonomia And The Implications of Infinity 34
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July 11, 2024 at 7:08 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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Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth 7
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July 25, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good" 36
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August 8, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Beyond Stoicism (2025) 20
- Don
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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