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    2. Episode 277 - TD07 - Platonism Says This World Is Darkness But The Next World Is Light - Epicurus Disagrees! 12

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    2. Episode 185 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 37 - Chapter 14 - The New Virtues 08 4

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    2. Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2

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      • April 27, 2020 at 10:44 AM
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    2. 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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    2. Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2

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      • October 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1

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      • June 24, 2020 at 8:29 AM
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      June 24, 2020 at 8:29 AM

    2. Episode Seventy-Four - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth 1

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      • June 8, 2021 at 9:16 PM
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    2. Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth 7

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      • July 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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      July 30, 2024 at 1:04 PM

    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Three - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 3) The Superiority of The Epicurean Viewpoint on "Gods" 3

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      • October 5, 2022 at 10:51 AM
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      • October 27, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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      October 27, 2024 at 1:20 AM

    2. Episode 198 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 07 3

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      • October 18, 2023 at 7:48 PM
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      • October 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM
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      October 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1

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      • December 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM
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      • December 11, 2020 at 9:07 PM
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      December 11, 2020 at 9:07 PM

    2. Episode 224 - Special Reading - The 1429 Letter of Cosma Raimondi 5

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      • April 20, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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      • May 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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      May 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Nine - The End of Our World 1

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      • April 27, 2021 at 10:22 PM
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      • May 8, 2021 at 1:01 PM
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      May 8, 2021 at 1:01 PM

    2. Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2

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      • August 6, 2021 at 5:19 PM
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      • August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM
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      August 14, 2021 at 9:13 AM

    2. Episode 269 - By Pleasure We Mean The Absence of Pain (All Experience That Is Not Painful) 11

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      • February 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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      • February 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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      February 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM

    2. Episode Sixty-Three - The Perils of Romantic Love (Part 3) 1

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      • March 17, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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    2. Episode 193 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03 4

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      • September 18, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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    2. Episode 173 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 26 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 02 4

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      • May 13, 2023 at 10:25 AM
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    2. Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1

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      • September 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM
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    2. Episode 160 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 14 - Chapter 8 - Sensations, Anticipations, And Feelings 01 3

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      • January 31, 2023 at 7:19 AM
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    2. Episode Twenty-Five - The Swerve Part II - As the Basis of Human Agency 1

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      • July 3, 2020 at 6:55 PM
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    2. Episode 175 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 27 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 04 3

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    2. Episode 235 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 10 - Velleius Explains the Epicurean Proleptic View Of Divinity 5

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      • August 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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    2. Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1

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      • January 9, 2021 at 8:48 AM
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    2. Episode Twenty - The Universe Is Infinite In Size 1

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    2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2

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    2. Lucretius Today - Episodes of Special Note 3

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      March 29, 2023 at 7:19 PM

    2. 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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    2. Episode One Hundred Forty-Four - Diogenes of Oinoanda (Part 4) Virtue Not The Highest Good 3

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      • October 11, 2022 at 5:21 PM
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      October 22, 2022 at 2:51 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1

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      • October 30, 2020 at 10:12 PM
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    2. Philodemus' "On Anger" - General - Texts and Resources 20

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    2. Mocking Epithets 3

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    2. Best Lucretius translation? 12

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    2. The Religion of Nature - as supported by Lucretius' De Rerum Natura 4

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    2. New Blog Post From Elli - " Fanaticism and the Danger of Dogmatism in Political and Religious Thought: An Epicurean Reading"

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