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Episode Twenty-Two - Book Two - Epicurean Philosophy As The Only Way To Defeat Fear of Death And Other Errors As To The Goal of Life 3
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June 6, 2020 at 5:12 PM
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Episode One Hundred Forty-Nine - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 05 - The Early Years of Epicurus 4
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Episode One Hundred Thirteen - Letter to Herodotus 02 - Principles of Thinking 4
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Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2
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Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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Episode One Hundred Thirty Two - Letter to Pythocles 06 - More On The Weather 5
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Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2
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Episode Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3
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Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2
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Episode 177 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 29 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 06 6
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Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3
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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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Episode 277 - TD07 - Platonism Says This World Is Darkness But The Next World Is Light - Epicurus Disagrees! 12
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April 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Episode 275 - TD05 - Does Motion Provide Evidence For The Existence of God And Divinity Of The Soul? 14
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April 4, 2025 at 4:30 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 Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2
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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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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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Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3
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July 17, 2021 at 6:28 AM
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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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Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2
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February 19, 2021 at 10:26 AM
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Episode 171 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 24 - Chapter 11 - Soul, Sensation, and Mind 01 4
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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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Episode 206 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 14 - More On The Nature of Morality 7
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Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2
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Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2
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Episode 159 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 13 - Chapter 7 - The Canon Reason and Nature 04 5
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Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2
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Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3
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Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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Beyond Stoicism (2025) 16
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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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Recorded Statements of Metrodorus 11
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