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Episode 180 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 32 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 03 9
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June 18, 2023 at 7:45 AM
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Episode One Hundred Seven - The Epicurean Emphasis on Natural Science 8
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Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6
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Episode 215 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 22 - The Epicurean View Of Happiness 9
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Episode One Hundred One - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part One 7
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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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Episode One Hundred Forty Two - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 2) "Reality" 7
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Episode 163 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 17 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 04 9
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Episode One Hundred Twenty-Two - Letter to Herodotus 10 - What it Means to "Exist" - Properties and Qualities 7
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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 257 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under Necessity - Part 1 12
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November 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6
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April 4, 2020 at 8:46 AM
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Episode 167 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 20 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 02 9
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March 25, 2023 at 3:42 PM
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Episode 253 - How The "Riddle Of Epicurus" FIts Into the Epicurean View of The Gods - Cicero's OTNOTG 28 14
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October 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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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 Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6
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August 21, 2021 at 5:20 PM
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Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5
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Episode One Hundred Three - Corollaries to the Doctrines - Part Three 9
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Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7
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Episode 214 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 21 - Cicero Argues For An Ideal View of Friendship and Happiness Which Epicureans Reject 8
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February 6, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Episode 259 - Nothing Comes From Nothing 16
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November 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5
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February 24, 2020 at 7:59 AM
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Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7
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Episode Sixty-One - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 1) 5
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Episode One Hundred Thirty-Six - The Letter to Menoeceus 03 - On Death (Part One) 10
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Episode Seventy-Two - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun 7
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Episode 179 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 31 - Chapter 13 - The True Piety 02 10
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Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6
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Episode One Hundred - Concluding On Justice With A Shout To Keep The Virtues In Their Proper Place 7
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Episode One Hundred Twelve - Epicurus' Letter to Herodotus 01 (Introduction) 7
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Beyond Stoicism (2025) 20
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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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