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Episode 357 — "A Brief Word On Sextus Empiricus And The Goal Of Skepticism"

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2. Episode 335 - EATAQ 17 - Epicurean Analysis Of Stoic Claims About Notions And Memory 5
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2. Episode One Hundred Thirty-Three - Letter to Pythocles 07 - Conclusion Of The Letter 6
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

Episode 289 - TD19 - "Epicureans Are Not Spocks!" 5

Episode 302 - TD30 - Epicurus and Roads Paved With Good Intentions 5

Episode 327 - EATAQ 09 - Intelligent Design vs Emergence 5

Episode 332 - EATAQ 14 - The Stoic Failure To Grasp That Judgment Never Happens In The Senses 5

Episode 335 - EATAQ 17 - Epicurean Analysis Of Stoic Claims About Notions And Memory 5

Episode 344 - EATAQ26 - What Is Our Mind's Role In Determining Truth? 5

Episode 348 - EATAQ30 - Neither Logic Nor Logos Are Shortcuts To Truth 5

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

Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6

Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6

Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6

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

Episode One Hundred Thirty-Three - Letter to Pythocles 07 - Conclusion Of The Letter 6

Episode 152 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 08 - The New Education 01 6

Lucretius Today Podcast Interview Questions (Interviews Project Starting 2023) 6

Episode 153 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 09 - The New Education 02 6

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

Episode 172 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 25 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 01 6

Episode 177 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 29 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 06 6

Episode 212 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 19 - Can "Pleasure" Be Defended In The Public Square? 6

Episode 220 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 27 -Cicero Attacks Epicurus' End-Of-Life Decisionmaking 6

Episode 221 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 28 -Cicero Alleges Pleasures Of The Mind Cannot Offset Pain In Epicurean Philosophy 6

Episode 252 - Why Reverence The Epicurean Gods? 6

Episode 281 - TD12 - Is Pain The Greatest Evil - Or Even An Evil At All? 6

Episode 291 - TD21 - Epicurus Pushes Back Against "Expect The Worst And You'll Never Be Disappointed" 6

Episode 292 - TD22 - Is Virtue Or Pleasure The Key To Overcoming Grief? 6

Episode 317 - TD43 - The Epicurean "System Of Counterbalancing" In Pursuit Of Pleasure 6

Episode 336 - EATAQ18 - A Coherent Whole Or An Arbitrary Mess - The Necessity of The Study of Nature and Knowledge In Addition To Ethics 6

Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7

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

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